Unit 28: Hamlet Messes With Polonius

Question 1

POLONIUS: How does my good lord Hamlet?

Answer 1

Well, God a-mercy

Question 2

POLONIUS: Do you know me, my lord?

Answer 2

Excellent well,

Question 3

Excellent well,

Answer 3

you are a fishmonger.

Question 4

POLONIUS: Not I, my lord.

Answer 4

Then I would you were so honest a man.

Question 5

POLONIUS: Honest, my lord

Answer 5

Ay, sir,

Question 6

Ay, sir,

Answer 6

to be honest as this world

Question 7

to be honest as this world

Answer 7

goes is to be one man

Question 8

goes is to be one man

Answer 8

picked out of ten thousand.

Question 9

POLONIUS: That’s very true, my lord.

Answer 9

Have you a daughter?

Question 10

POLONIUS: I have, my lord.

Answer 10

Let her not walk i’th’ sun:

Question 11

Let her not walk i’th’ sun:

Answer 11

conception is a blessing

Question 12

conception is a blessing

Answer 12

but as your daughter may conceive,

Question 13

but as your daughter may conceive,

Answer 13

friend-

Question 14

friend-

Answer 14

Look to ‘t.

Question 15

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?

Answer 15

Words, words, words.

Question 16

POLONIUS: What is the matter, my lord?

Answer 16

Between who?

Question 17

POLONIUS: I mean the matter that you read, my lord.

Answer 17

Slanders, sir.

Question 18

POLONIUS: Will you walk out of the air, my lord?

Answer 18

Into my grave.

Question 19

POLONIUS: My lord, I will take my leave of you.

Answer 19

You cannot take from me anything

Question 20

You cannot take from me anything

Answer 20

that I will not more willingly part withal-

Question 21

that I will not more willingly part withal

Answer 21

• except my life,

Question 22

-except my life,

Answer 22

except my life,

Question 23

• except my life,

Answer 23

except my life,

Question 24

except my life,

Answer 24

except my life.

Question 25

**POLONIUS: Fare you well, my lord.

Answer 25

These tedious fools.