Hamlet

running scene 5

Enter Polonius and Reynaldo

POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.

Gives money and papers

REYNALDO I will, my lord.

POLONIUS You shall do marvellous3 wisely, good Reynaldo,

Before you4 visit him, you make inquiry

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p; Of his behaviour.

REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it.

POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,

Inquire me first what Danskers8 are in Paris,

And how, and who, what means and where they keep9,

What company, at what expense, and finding

By this encompassment and drift11 of question

That they do know my son, come you more nearer12

Than your particular demands will touch it:

Take you14, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,

As thus, 'I know his father and his friends

And in part him.' Do you mark this, Reynaldo?

REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord.

POLONIUS 'And in part him, but', you may say, 'not well,

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

Addicted20 so and so', and there put on him

What forgeries you please: marry, none so rank21

As may dishonour him -- take heed of that --

But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips23

As are companions noted and most known

To youth and liberty.

REYNALDO As gaming26, my lord.