SCENE I.--_Elsinore. A Platform before the Castle. FRANCISCO
on his post. Enter to him BERNARDO._
_Bernardo._ Who's there?
_Francisco._ Nay answer me: stand and unfold yourself!
This passage, furnished with proper business, might be rendered the
means of showing the sort of life led by _Laertes_, justifying the
advice subsequently given to him by _Polonius_ more appropriate to
the conditions of the case as now (for the first time) fully divulged,
Thus--I give my view of the matter:--