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Given private time to you, and you yourself
Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:
If it be so—as so 'tis put on^{[b 1]} me,
And that in way of caution—I must tell you, 95
You do not understand yourself so clearly
As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
What is between you? give me up the truth.

Oph. He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Of his affection to me. 100

Pol. Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
Unsifted^{[b 2]} in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his tenders,^{[b 3]} as you call them?

Oph. I do not know, my lord, what I should think.

Pol. Marry, I'll^{[a 1]} teach you: think yourself a baby, 105
That you have ta'en these^{[a 2]} tenders for true pay,
Which are not sterling. Tender^{[b 4]} yourself more dearly;
Or—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running^{[a 3][b 5]} it thus—you'll tender^{[a 4]} me a fool.^{[b 6]}

Oph. My lord, he hath importuned me with love 110
In honourable fashion.

1. 105. I'll] F, I will Q.
2. 106. these] Q, his F.
3. 109. Running] Collier conj., Dyce, Cambridge, Furness; Wrong Q; Roaming F; Wronging Pope and several editors; Wringing, Warburton, Theobald and others.
4. 109. tender] render F 4.

1. 94. put on] communicated to, as in As You Like It, I. ii. 99.
2. 102. Unsifted] untried.
3. 103. tenders] Compare Middleton, Women Beware Women, I. ii.: "If now this daughter so tendered—let me come to your own phrase, sir."
4. 107. Tender] regard, take care of, hold dear—frequent in Shakespeare.
5. 109. Running] Clar. Press, accepting this reading proposed by Collier, observes its accordance with the figure in the previous line.
6. 109. fool] Does this mean, You will present yourself to me as a fool? or, present me (to the public) as a fool? or, can "fool" mean an innocent, a baby?—for Polonius is not over-delicate in his warnings. See Romeo and Juliet, I. iii. 31 and 48.