Please can you identify the speaker in the following lines and also tell meaning?
1) “No, my lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his letter, and denied his access to me”
2) “More matter less art”
- Ophelia states these lines to Polonius, her father. When she tells him that she did as he said and did not respond to Hamlet’s advances.
- Queen says this line, when she talks to Polonius. In fact, she uses less words so that to express directly and to the point.