reading.
POLONIUS Away, I do beseech you both away:
I'll board him presently. O, give me leave180.--
Exeunt King and Queen
How does my good lord Hamlet?
HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy182.
POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord?
HAMLET Excellent, excellent well: you're a fishmonger184.
POLONIUS Not I, my lord.
HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man.
POLONIUS Honest, my lord?
HAMLET Ay, sir: to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one
man picked out of two thousand.
POLONIUS That's very true, my lord.
HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a
good kissing carrion192-- Have you a daughter?
POLONIUS I have, my lord.
HAMLET Let her not walk i'th'sun: conception194 is a blessing,
but not as your daughter may conceive. Friend, look to't.
Aside
POLONIUS How say you by that? Still harping on my
daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a
fishmonger. He is far gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I
suffered much extremity for love, very near this. I'll speak to
him again.-- What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET Words, words, words.
POLONIUS What is the matter202, my lord?
HAMLET Between who?
POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
HAMLET Slanders, sir, for the satirical slave says here that old