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But if't be he I mean, he's very wild;

Addicted so and so;' and there put on him

What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank

As may dishonour him; take heed of that;

But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips

As are companions noted and most known

To youth and liberty.

Reynaldo

As gaming, my lord?

Polonius

Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing,

Quarrelling, drabbing. You may go so far.

Reynaldo

My lord, that would dishonour him.

Polonius

Faith no, as you may season it in the charge.

You must not put another scandal on him,

That he is open to incontinency;

That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults

                         so quaintly

That they may seem the taints of liberty;

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,

A savageness in unreclaimed blood,

Of general assault.

Reynaldo

But my good lord —

Polonius

Wherefore should you do this?

Reynaldo

Ay, my lord, I would know that.

Polonius

Marry, sir, here's my drift,

And I believe it is a fetch of warrant.

You laying these slight sullies on my son,

As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' th' working,

Mark you,

Your party in converse, him you would sound,

Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes

The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd

He closes with you in this consequence;

'Good sir,' or so; or 'friend,' or 'gentleman' —

According to the phrase or the addition

Of man and country.

Reynaldo

Very good, my lord.

Polonius

And then, sir, does he this, – he does-What was I about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something. Where did I leave?

Reynaldo

At 'closes in the consequence.' At 'friend or so,' and 'gentleman.'

Polonius

At 'closes in the consequence' ay, marry!

He closes with you thus: 'I know the gentleman,

I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,

Or then, or then, with such and such; and,

                         as you say,

There was he gaming, there o'ertook in's rouse,

There falling out at tennis': or perchance,

'I saw him enter such a house of sale' —

Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now;

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;