II. ii. 171-219 -- 1208-1262  1208 How dooes my good Lord Hamlet?
1209 Ham. Well, God a mercy. 1210 Pol. Doe you knowe me my Lord? 1211 Ham. Excellent <excellent> well, {you are} <y'are> a Fishmonger. 1212 Pol. Not I my Lord. 1213 Ham. Then I would you were so honest a man. 1214 Pol. Honest my Lord. 1215 Ham. I sir to be honest as this world goes, 1215-6 Is to be | one man pickt out of {tenne} <two> thousand. 1217 Pol. That's very true my Lord. 1218-9 Ham. For if the sunne breede maggots in a dead dogge, | being a 1219-20 good kissing carrion{.} <----> | Haue you a daughter? 1221 Pol. I haue my Lord. 1222-3 Ham. Let her not walke i'th Sunne, conception is a | blessing, 1223-4 But <not> as your daughter may conceaue, friend | looke to't. 1225-6 Pol. How say you by that, still harping on my {daughter,} <daugh-| ter:> yet hee 1226-7 knewe me not at first, {a} <he> sayd I was a {Fishmonger, a is farre gone,} <Fishmon-> 1227-8 <ger: he is farre gone, farre gone:>and truly in my youth, | I suffred much extremity for loue, very 1228-9 neere this. | Ile speake to him againe. What doe you reade my 1229 Lord. 1230 Ham. Words, words, words. 1231 Pol. What is the matter my Lord. 1232 Ham. Betweene who. 1233 Pol. I meane the matter {that} you {reade} <meane,> my Lord. 1234-5 Ham. Slaunders sir; for the satericall {rogue} <slaue> sayes heere, | that old 1235-6 men haue gray beards, that their faces are {wrinckled,} <wrin-| kled;> their eyes 1236-7 purging thick Amber, {&} <or> plumtree | gum, & that they haue a plen- 1237-8 {Flv} tifull {lacke} <locke> of wit, | together with {most} weake hams, all which sir 1238-40 though I | most powerfully and potentlie belieue, yet I hold it | not 1240-1 honesty to haue it thus set downe, for <you> your | selfe sir {shall growe} <should be> old 1241-2 as I am: if like a Crab you could | goe backward. 1243-4 Pol. Though this be madnesse, | yet there is method in't, will you 1244-5 walke | out of the ayre my Lord? 1246 Ham. Into my graue. 1247-8 Pol. Indeede {that's} <that is> out {of the ayre;} <o'th'Ayre:> | how pregnant sometimes 1248-51 his replies are, | a happines | that often madnesse hits on, | which reason 1251-3 and {sanctity} <Sanitie> could not | so prosperously be deliuered of. {I will leaue} 1253-7 {him and my daughter. My Lord, I will take my leaue of you.} 1253 <I will leaue him.> 1254 <And sodainely contriue the meanes of meeting> 1255 <Betweene him, and my daughter.> 1256 <My Honourable Lord, I will most humbly> 1257 <take my leaue of you.> 1258 <Oo3v> Ham. You cannot <Sir> take from mee any thing that I | will {not} more 1259 willingly part withall: except my life, {except my life, except} my 1260 life. {Enter Guyldersterne, and Rosencraus.} 1261 Pol. Fare you well my Lord. 1262 Ham. These tedious old fooles. |