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"Vows", "Brokers"
Metaphor
Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 127-131

A metaphor comparing Hamlet's vows to brokers working on his behalf in Act 1, Scene 3 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Polonius 

Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds
The better to beguile. This is for all —

In this complicated metaphor, Polonius is personifying (giving something human traits) Hamlet’s vows as brokers working on his behalf. Even though they are dressed in religious garments (investments) and use sanctified and pious words, they are in reality pimps (bawds) pleading their case (suit) to deceptively tempt (beguile) Ophelia into going to bed with him.