himself without being
true to others; neither can he be true to others without being true to
himself; but if a man make himself the centre for the birth of action,
it will follow, '_as the night the day_,' that he will be true neither
to himself nor to any other man. In this regard note the history of
Laertes, developed in the play.]

[Footnote 13: --as salt, to make the counsel keep.]

[Footnote 14: See _note 9, page 37_.]

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_Ophe._ So please you, somthing touching the L. _Hamlet._

_Polon._ Marry, well bethought:
Tis told me he hath very oft of late
Giuen priuate time to you; and you your selfe
Haue of your audience beene most free and bounteous.[1]
If it be so, as so tis put on me;[2]
And that in way of caution: I must tell you,
You doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely,
As it behoues my Daughter, and your Honour
What is betweene you, giue me vp the truth?

_Ophe._ He hath my Lord of late, made many tenders
Of his affection to me.

_Polon._ Affection, puh. You speake like a greene Girle,
Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance.
Doe you beleeue his tenders, as you call them?

_Ophe._ I do not know, my Lord, what I should thinke.

_Polon._ Marry Ile teach you; thinke your self a Baby,
[Sidenote: I will]
That you haue tane his tenders for true pay, [Sidenote: tane these]
Which are not starling. Tender your selfe more dearly;
[Sidenote: sterling]
Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase,
[Sidenote: (not ... &c.]
Roaming it[3] thus, you'l tender me a foole.[4]
[Sidenote: Wrong it thus]

_Ophe._ My Lord, he hath importun'd me with loue,
In honourable fashion.

_Polon._ I, fashion you may call it, go too, go too.

_Ophe._ And hath giuen countenance to his speech,
My Lord, with all the vowes of Heauen.
[Sidenote: with almost all the holy vowes of]

[Footnote 1: There had then been a good deal of intercourse between
Hamlet and Ophelia: she had heartily encouraged him.]

[Footnote 2: 'as so I am informed, and that by way of caution,']

[Footnote 3: --making it, 'the poor phrase' _tenders_, gallop wildly
about--as one might _roam_ a horse; _larking it_.]

[Footnote 4: 'you will in your own person present me a fool.']

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_Polon_. I, Springes to