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Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes

Osric
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.

Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in
you, though I know to divide him inventorially
would dozy th’ arithmetic of memory

Hamlet
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.
Osric
Your Lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
Hamlet
The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the
gentleman in our more rawer breath?
Osric
Sir?
Horatio
Is ’t not possible to understand in another
tongue? You will to ’t, sir, really.
Hamlet, to Osric
What imports the nomination of
this gentleman?
Osric
Of Laertes?
Horatio
His purse is empty already; all ’s golden words
are spent.
Hamlet
Of him, sir.
Osric
I know you are not ignorant—
Hamlet
I would you did, sir. Yet, in faith, if you did, it
would not much approve me. Well, sir?
Osric
You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is—
Hamlet
I dare not confess that, lest I should compare
with him in excellence. But to know a man well
were to know himself.

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Act 5
Scene 2
Line 119

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