Osric: Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
Hamlet: Dost thou know this waterfly?
Horatio: No, my good lord.
Hamlet: Thy state is the more gracious, for 'tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile. Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess. 'Tis a chuff, but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt.
Osric: Sweet lord, if your friendship were at leisure I should impart a thing to you from his majesty.
Osric: My lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir this is the matter.
Hamlet: I beseech you, remember.
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.
Hamlet: To know a man well were to know himself.
Osric: The King, sir, hath laid, sir, that in a dozen passes between you and him he shall not exceed you three hits. He hath on't twelve for nine, and it would come to an immediate trial if your lordship would vouchsafe an answer.
Hamlet: Let the foils be brought; the gentleman willing, an the King hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can. If not, I'll gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Osric: I commend my duty to your lordship.
Horatio: If your mind dislike anything, obey it. I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.
Hamlet: Not a whit. We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.