Hamlet

POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,

Drabbing28: you may go so far.

REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him.

POLONIUS Faith, no, as you may season it in the charge30.

You must not put another scandal on him,

That he is open to incontinency32;

That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly33

That they may seem the taints of liberty34,

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,

A savageness in unreclaimed36 blood,

Of general assault37.

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 drift41,

And I believe, it is a fetch of warrant42:

You laying these slight sullies on my son,

As 'twere a thing a little soiled i'th'working44,

Mark you, your party in converse, him you would sound45,

Having ever seen in the prenominate46 crimes

The youth you breathe of47 guilty, be assured

He closes with you in this consequence48:

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

According to the phrase and the addition50

Of man and country.

REYNALDO Very good, my lord.

POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this -- he does -- what

was I about to say? I was about to say something:

where did I leave?

REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence' at 'friend or so'