POLONIUS.
Hath there been such a time, — I'd fain know that —
That I have positively said ''Tis so,'
When it prov'd otherwise?
KING.
Not that I know.
POLONIUS.
Take this from this, if this be otherwise:
[Points to his head and shoulder.]
If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.
KING.
How may we try it further?
POLONIUS.
You know sometimes he walks for hours together
Here in the lobby.
QUEEN.
So he does indeed.
POLONIUS.
At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter: if he love her not,
And he not from his reason fall'n thereon
Let me be no assistant for a state,
But keep a farm and carters.
KING.
We will try it.
QUEEN.
But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
