Ham. Ha, ha! are you honest?
Oph. My lord?[1073]
Ham. Are you fair? 105
Oph. What means your lordship?
Ham. That if you be honest and fair, your honesty[1074][1075]
should admit no discourse to your beauty.[1075]
Oph. Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce[1076]
than with honesty?[1077] 110
Ham. Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner
transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force
of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was[1078]
sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I[1079]
did love you once. 115
Oph. Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
Ham. You should not have believed me; for virtue
cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it:[1080]
I loved you not.[1081]
Oph. I was the more deceived. 120