469Enter Laertes, and Ophelia his sister. My necessaries are inbarked. Farewell.
463471And sister, as the winds give benefit
464472And convey is assistant, do not sleep
465473But let me hear from you.
Do you doubt that?
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,
468476Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,
469477A violet in the youth of primy nature,
470478Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
471479The perfume and suppliance of a minute,
No more. No more but so?
Think it no more.
474483For nature crescent does not grow alone
475484In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes
476485The inward service of the mind and soul
477486Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,
478487And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
479488The virtue of his will; but you must fear,
480489His greatness weighed, his will is not his own.
482490He may not, as unvalued persons do,
483491Carve for himself, for on his choice depends
484492The safety and health of this whole state,
485493And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
486494Unto the voice and yielding of that body
487495Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
488496It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
489497As he in his particular act and place
490498May give his saying deed, which is no further
491499Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
492500Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain
493501If with too credent ear you list his songs,
494502Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
495503To his unmastered importunity.
496504Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
497505And keep you in the rear of your affection,
498506Out of the shot and danger of desire.
499507The chariest maid is prodigal enough
500508If she unmask her beauty to the moon.
501509Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
502510The canker galls the infants of the spring
503511Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
504512And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
505513Contagious blastments are most imminent.
506514Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear.
507515Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
509517As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
510518Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
511519Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
512520Whiles, a puffed and reckless libertine,
513521Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
514522And recks not his own rede.
Oh, fear me not.
517524I stay too long. But here my father comes.
518525A double blessing is a double grace;
519526Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
521528The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
522529And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee,
523530And these few precepts in thy memory
524531Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
525532Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
526533Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
527534Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
528535Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
529536But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
530537Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware
531538Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,
532539Bear't that th'opposèd may beware of thee.
533540Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
534541Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
535542Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
536543But not expressed in fancy--rich, not gaudy,
537544For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
538545And they in France of the best rank and station
539546Are of a most select and generous, chief in that.
540547Neither a borrower nor a lender, boy,
541548For love oft loses both itself and friend,
542549And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.
543550This above all: to thine own self be true,
544551And it must follow as the night the day
545552Thou canst not then be false to any man.
546553Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!
Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
The time invests you. Go. Your servants tend.
Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
550557What I have said to you.
'Tis in my memory locked,
552559And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
Farewell.
What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?
So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
Marry, well bethought.
557564'Tis told me he hath very oft of late
558565Given private time to you, and you yourself
559566Have of your audience been most free and bounteous.
560567If it be so--as so 'tis put on me,
561568And that in way of caution--I must tell you
562569You do not understand yourself so clearly
563570As it behooves my daughter and your honor.
564571What is between you? Give me up the truth.
He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Affection? Pooh, you speak like a green girl,
568575Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
569576Do you believe his "tenders," as you call them?
I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
Marry, I will teach you. Think yourself a baby
572579That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay
573580Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly,
574581Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase
575582Wrong[ing] it thus--you'll tender me a fool.
My lord, he hath importuned me with love
Ay, fashion you may call it. Go to, go to.
And hath given countenance to his speech,
580587My lord, with almost all the holy vows of heaven.
Ay, spring[e]s to catch woodcocks. I do know
582589When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
583590Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,
584591Giving more light than heat, extinct in both
585592Even in their promise as it is a-making ,
586593You must not take for fire. From this time
587594Be something scanter of your maiden presence.
588595Set your entreatments at a higher rate
589596Than a command to parle. For Lord Hamlet,
590597Believe so much in him that he is young,
591598And with a larger tether may he walk
592599Than may be given you. In few, Ophelia,
593600Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers
594601Not of that dye which their investments show,
595602But mere implorators of unholy suits
596603Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds
597604The better to beguile. This is for all:
598605I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
599606Have you so slander any moment leisure
600607As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
601608Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways.
I shall obey, my lord.