Act 1.6
Polonius:
Good Claudius. How well met did you find our king?
Claudius:
Good Polonius, he was not found at all.
Polonius:
It must be of great moment then when veiled in secrecy.
Claudius:
There is no moment; there is no veil; he did not meet with me.
Polonius:
And in this meeting that did not occur, did you hear what I must know?
Claudius:
In that I guess I will concur if in nothing you make it so.
Polonius:
And you may still find in me a friend in time who will serve your purposes well.
Claudius:
When I have a purpose, you may do me service, but now there's scarce to tell.
Polonius:
In your not telling, you speak loud of things that are of pith and purpose.
Claudius:
Imagination has its wings, but here it gives no service.
Polonius:
Would you leave to rumor then what must I know in fact?
Claudius:
I do nothing more then tell the score of what no one did enact.
Polonius:
I take this lack of action, then, and file it in deep places. In the silence you offer me, I hear a pledge quite graceless.
Claudius:
We are great friends, and to make amends, you will leave me to my bed.
Polonius:
Then I say good morrow. We will speak in sorrow for what is here unsaid.