polonius

[stnrr]

See you now;
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out:
So by my former lecture and advice,
Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?

[Redbeck]

Welcome to the debate stnrr, your contribution is warm welcomed, for I see a devotee of the bard and his Prince of Denmark you be - there is fine prose aplenty waiting in those Warwickshire originated wings, I'll wager!

Perhaps I lean more toward and indeed lurked within the sordid underworld of Kit Marlowe in another life, given my penchant for those Polinius' lines that lead in to such a powerful set of words above.

'At “closes in the consequence.” Ay, marry.
He closes thus: “I know the gentleman.
I saw him yesterday”—or “t' other day,”
Or then, or then, with such or such—“and, as you say,
There was he gaming, there o'ertook in’s rouse,
There falling out at tennis,” or, perchance,
“I saw him enter such a house of sale”—
Videlicet a brothel, or so forth.
See you now........'