Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry, as 'twere- I
cannot
tell how. But, my lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you
that
he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the
matter-
Ham. I beseech you remember.
[Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.]
Osr. Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here
is
newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute
gentleman,
full of most excellent differences, of very soft society and
great showing. Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the
card
or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the
continent of
what part a gentleman would see.
Ham. Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I
know, to divide him inventorially would dozy th' arithmetic
of
memory, and yet but yaw neither in respect of his quick sail.
But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of
great
article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to
make
true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who
else
would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
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