Hamlet: Osric scene

enter horatio and hamlet in a hall in the castle But I am very sorry, good Horatio, that to Laertes I forgot myself, for by the image of my cause I see the portraiture of his: I’ll court his favours. But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark I humbly thank you sir. Dust know this waterfly?
No, my good lord. Thy state is the more gracious; for ’tis a vice to know him.
I should impart a thing to you from his majesty. I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use ’tis for the head.
I thank your lordship, it is very hot No, believe me, ’tis very cold; the wind is northerly.
It is an indifferent cold my lord. But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.
But, my lord, his majesty bad me signify to you that he has laid a great wager in your head: sir, this is the matter– I beseech you remember
He is the card or calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see. Sir, 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.
Your lordship speaks most infallibly with him. The concernancy, sir? Why do we wrap the gentlemen in our more rawer breath?
Is’t not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do’t sir, really. What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
His purse is empty already, all’s golden words are spent. Of him sir.
I know you are not ignorant– I would you did sir, yet, in faith, if you did it would not much approve me. Well sir?
You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is– I dare not confess, that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but to know a man well were to know himself.
I mean sir, for his weapon What’s his weapon?
… If your lordship could vouchsafe the answer. How if I answer, ‘no’
I mean my lord, the opposition of your person in trial. Sir, I will walk here in the hall if it will please his majesty, ’tis the breathing time of day with me. Let the foils, the gentlemen willing, and the king hold his purpose, I will win for him, an I can, if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Shall I redeliver you e’en so? To this effect sir, after what flourish your nature will.
I commend my duty to your lordship Yours, yours.
Exit Osric He does well to commend it himself, there are no tongues else for’s turn.
You will lose this wager my lord I do not think so, since he went into France I have been in continual practice. I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart, but it is no matter.
Nay good my lord It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gain-giving as would perhaps trouble a woman.
I will forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit. Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, tis not to come, if it be not to come, it will be now, if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
September 2, 2019