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William Aldis Wright
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_THE WORKS_
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THE WORKS
OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
EDITED BY
WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;
AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.
LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
_VOLUME VIII._
London and Cambridge:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1866.
CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
THE Preface vii
HAMLET 3
Notes to Hamlet 185
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke 197
KING LEAR 249
Notes to King Lear 427
OTHELLO 437
Notes to Othello 593
PREFACE.
1. The earliest edition of HAMLET appeared in 1603, with the following
title-page:
THE | Tragicall Historie of | HAMLET | _Prince of Denmarke_
| By William Shake-speare. | As it hath beene diuerse times
acted by his Highnesse ser-| uants in the Cittie of London: as
also in the two V-| niuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and
else-where | At London printed for N: L. and Iohn Trundell. |
1603.
We refer to it as (Q₁).
A copy of this edition belonged to Sir Thomas Hanmer, though he does
not appear to have mentioned it in his notes to Shakespeare or in his
correspondence, and its existence was not known till his library came
into the possession of Sir E. H. Bunbury in 1821. In a copy of the
Reprint of 1825, now at Barton, Sir E. H. Bunbury wrote the following
note:
'The only copy of this edition of Hamlet (1603) which is known to be
in existence was found by me in the Library at Barton when it came
into my possession in 1821. The Hamlet was bound up with ten others of
the small 4to editions of Shakespeare's Plays (1598 to 1603) and with
The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634). Most of these were complete. I sold the
volume in Dec. 1824 for £180 to Messrs Payne and Foss, who resold it to
the Duke of Devonshire for £230.'
This copy wanted the last leaf containing the 22 concluding lines.
A second copy, wanting the title-page but otherwise perfect, was
discovered in 1856 by Mr W. H. Rooney of Dublin. 'It was bought,' says
Mr Timmins, 'by Mr Rooney from a student of Trinity College, Dublin,
who had brought it from Nottinghamshire with his other books. After
reprinting the last leaf, Mr Rooney sold the pamphlet to Mr Boone for
£70, from whom Mr J. O. Halliwell bought it for £120, and it is now in
the British Museum.'
We have reprinted this edition, and recorded in foot-notes the few
discrepancies which are found between the two copies.
An extremely accurate reprint was made from the Devonshire copy in
1825, and it was lithographed in facsimile, with the addition of the
missing leaf, in 1858, under the direction of Mr Collier and at the
expense of the Duke. In 1860 Mr J. Allen, Junr., reprinted this edition
and the Quarto of 1604, placing the corresponding passages as nearly as
possible on opposite pages, with a preface by Mr Samuel Timmins.
The edition of 1603 is obviously a very imperfect reproduction of the
play, and there is every reason to believe that it was printed from
a manuscript surreptitiously obtained. This manuscript may have been
compiled in the first instance from short hand notes taken during the
representation, but there are many errors in the printed text which
seem like errors of a copyist rather than of a hearer. Compare for
example lines 37, 38 of Scene III. of our Reprint, p. 205, with the
corresponding lines of the more perfect drama as it was printed in the
Quarto of 1604, Act I. Scene 3, lines 73, 74, p. 26.
In the Quarto of 1603 the passage runs thus:
And they of _France_ of the chiefe rancke and station
Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that:
In that of 1604:
'And they in Fraunce of the best ranck and station,
Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:'
It is clear that the corruption in both passages is due to an error in
the transcript from which both were copied. Probably the author had
originally written:
'And they in France of the best rank and station
Are most select and generous in that:'
and then given between the lines or in the margin, 'of,' 'chief',
meaning these as alternative readings for 'in' and 'best' in the first
line. The transcriber by mistake inserted them in the second line. A
few lines above both Quartos give 'courage' for 'comrade,' a mistake
due undoubtedly to the eye and not to the ear.
We believe then that the defects of the manuscript from which the
Quarto of 1603 was printed had been in part at least supplemented by
a reference to the authentic copy in the library of the theatre. Very
probably the man employed for this purpose was some inferior actor or
servant, who would necessarily work in haste and by stealth, and in any
case would not be likely to work very conscientiously for the printer
or bookseller who was paying him to deceive his masters.
The Quarto of 1604, which we call Q₂, has the following title-page:
_THE_ | Tragicall Historie of | HAMLET, | _Prince of Denmarke_.
| By William Shakespeare. | Newly imprinted and enlarged to
almost as much | againe as it was, according to the true and
perfect | Coppie. | AT LONDON, | Printed by I. R. for N. L. and
are to be sold at his | shoppe vnder Saint Dunstons Church in |
Fleetstreet. 1604.
The printer 'I. R.' was no doubt, as Mr Collier says, James Roberts,
who had made an entry in the books of the Stationers' company as
early as July 26, 1602, of 'A booke, The Revenge of Hamlett prince
of Denmarke, as yt was latelie acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his
servantes.'
For some unknown reason the projected edition was delayed, and in the
mean time the popularity of the play encouraged N. L., i.e. Nicholas
Ling, and the other publisher, Trundell, to undertake a surreptitious
edition.
In the interval between the two editions Shakespeare seems to have
changed the names of some of his Dramatis Personæ, substituting
'Polonius' for 'Corambis' and 'Reynaldo' for 'Montano.' He may also
have changed the order of one or two scenes, and here and there erased
or inserted a few lines, but we think that no substantial change
was made, and that the chief differences between (Q₁) and Q₂ are
only such as might be expected between a bona fide, and a mala fide,
transcription.
The Quarto of 1605, which we call Q₃, is not, properly speaking, a new
edition, being printed from the same forms as Q₂, and differing from it
no more than one copy of the same edition may differ from another. The
title-page differs only in the date, where 1605 is substituted for 1604.
Another Quarto, our Q₄, printed in 1611, bears a title-page which does
not substantially differ from that of Q₃, except that it is said to be:
'Printed for _Iohn Smethwicke_, and are to be sold at his
shoppe | in Saint Dunstons Church-yeard in Fleetstreet. | Under
the Diall. 1611. |'
Another Quarto, without date, is said on the title-page to be 'Newly
imprinted and inlarged, according to the true | and perfect Copy lastly
Printed,' and to be 'Printed by W. S. for _Iohn Smethwicke_.' Otherwise
the title-page is identical with that of Q₄. Mr Collier supposes this
undated Quarto to have been printed in 1607, because there is an entry
in the Stationers' books of that year and no edition with that date is
known to exist. We are convinced however that the undated Quarto was
printed from that of 1611, and we have therefore called it Q₅.
Another Quarto, printed 'by _R. Young_ for _John Smethwicke_,' was
published in 1637. This we call Q₆. It is printed from Q₅, though the
spelling is considerably modernized and the punctuation amended.
The symbol Qq signifies the agreement of Q₂, Q₃, Q₄, Q₅ and Q₆.
Besides these, several editions, usually known as Players' Quartos,
were printed at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the
following century. Of these we have had before us during our collation,
editions of 1676, 1685, 1695 and 1703. These we call respectively
Q(1676), Q(1685), Q(1695) and Q(1703). We have given all readings
which seemed in any way remarkable, though we need scarcely say that
the changes made in these editions have no authority whatever. It is
however worthy of notice that many emendations usually attributed to
Rowe and Pope are really derived from one or other of these Players'
Quartos. When we give a reading as belonging to one of these Quartos,
it is to be understood that it occurs there for the first time and that
all the subsequent Quartos adopt it.
The text of Hamlet given in the Folio of 1623 is not derived from any
of the previously existing Quartos, but from an independent manuscript.
Many passages are found in the Folio which do not appear in any of the
Quartos. On the other hand many passages found in the Quartos are not
found in the Folio. It is to be remarked that several of those which
appear in the Folio and not in the Quarto of 1604 or its successors,
are found in an imperfect form in the Quarto of 1603, and therefore are
not subsequent additions. Both the Quarto text of 1604 and the Folio
text of 1623 seem to have been derived from manuscripts of the play
curtailed, and curtailed differently, for purposes of representation.
Therefore in giving in our text all the passages from both Folio and
Quarto we are reproducing, as near as may be, the work as it was
originally written by Shakespeare, or rather as finally retouched by
him after the spurious edition of 1603.
We have been unable to procure a copy of the Quarto edition of this
play, edited in 1703 by 'the accurate Mr John Hughs' (Theobald's
_Shakespeare Restored_, p. 26), and have therefore quoted the readings
of it on Theobald's authority. It is different from the Players'
Quarto of 1703, and is not mentioned in Bohn's edition of Lowndes's
_Bibliographer's Manual_. No copy of it exists in the British Museum,
the Bodleian, the library of the Duke of Devonshire, the Capell
collection, or any other to which we have had access.
We have to thank Dr C. M. Ingleby for the loan of several editions of
_Hamlet_ which we should otherwise have had difficulty in procuring.
2. KING LEAR first appeared in 1608. In this year there were two
editions in Quarto. One bears the following title:
M. William Shakespeare, | _HIS_ | True Chronicle History of the
life | and death of King _Lear_, and his | _three Daughters_. |
_With the unfortunate life of_ EDGAR, | sonne and heire to the
Earle of _Glocester_, and | _his sullen and assumed humour of_
TOM | of Bedlam. | _As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty
at White-Hall, vp-_ | _on S. Stephens night, in Christmas
Hollidaies_. | By his Maiesties Seruants, playing vsually at
the | _Globe_ on the _Banck-side_. | Printed for _Nathaniel
Butter_. | 1608. |
The printer's device is that of J. Roberts.
This we have called Q₁. In the few instances in which there are
differences between Capell's copy and that in the Duke of Devonshire's
library, we have distinguished the readings as those of Q₁ (Cap.) and
Q₁ (Dev.) respectively. Through the kindness of Sir S. Morton Peto and
Mr Lilly, we have been enabled to collate two other copies, but without
discovering any variations from that in the Capell collection.
In the same year another Quarto edition of this play was issued by the
same publisher. Its title is as follows:
M. William Shak-speare: | _HIS_ | True Chronicle Historie of
the life and | death of King LEAR and his three | Daughters.
| _With the vnfortunate life of_ Edgar, _sonne_ | and heire
to the Earle of Gloster, and his | sullen and assumed humor
of | TOM of Bedlam: | _As it was played before the Kings
Maiestie at Whitehall vpon_ | _S._ Stephans _night in Christmas
Hollidayes_. | By his Maiesties seruants playing vsually at
the Gloabe | on the Bancke-side. | _LONDON_,| Printed for
_Nathaniel Butter_, and are to be sold at his shop in _Pauls_ |
Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere | Sᵗ. _Austins_
Gate. 1608. |
We have called this Q₂. In the six copies we have collated there are a
large number of very curious and important variations. To distinguish
them we have made use of the following notation.
1. Q₂ (Cap.) The copy in Capell's collection.
2. Q₂ (Dev.) The copy in the Library of the Duke of Devonshire.
3. Q₂ (Mus. per.) A perfect copy in the British Museum (C. 34. K. 18).
4. Q₂ (Mus. imp.) An imperfect copy (wanting title) in the British
Museum (C. 34. K. 17); formerly in the possession of Mr Halliwell.
5. Q₂ (Bodl. 1). A copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 35), with the
title, but wanting the last leaf.
6. Q₂ (Bodl. 2). A copy in the Bodleian Library (Malone 37), wanting
title but having the last leaf.
It has been supposed in consequence of statements made by Malone and
Boswell that a third edition of King Lear was published in 1608.
We shall show that there is no evidence for this. In the _Variorum
Shakespeare_ (II. 652), edited by Boswell in 1821, three Quartos are
described, which are distinguished in the notes to the play by the
letters A, B, C, respectively. The first of these is a copy of Q₂,
quoted by us as Q₂ (Bodl. 1); the second is a copy of Q₁; and the
third, which is in reality another copy of Q₂ and is quoted by us as Q₂
(Bodl. 2), is described as follows:
"Title the same as the two former, except that like the first it begins
at signature B: and like the second, has no reference to the place of
sale."
This statement of Boswell's is taken from a note in Malone's
handwriting prefixed to the copy in question, which we transcribe.
"This copy of King Lear differs in some particulars from the two others
in Vol. IV.
"The title-page of it is the same as the second of those copies, that
is, it has no direction to the place of sale, and the first signat.
is B,--notwithstanding which there are minute diversities; thus, in
this copy in H₃ verso, we have 'A _foole_ vsurps my _bed_'; in the
other whose first signature is also B, we find--'My _foote_ usurps my
_body_', and in the copy without any direction to the place of sale
(whose first signature is A) 'My _foote_ usurps my _head_'."
Now it is a little remarkable that at present the copy has no
title-page at all, and there is no trace of the title-page having
been removed since the volume has been in its present condition. The
probability is that the title was originally wanting and that one had
been supplied from a copy of Q₁ before it came into Malone's hands, and
that while it was in this condition he wrote the above note upon it. It
was then sent to be bound in a volume with other quartos, and the title
may have been lost at the binder's, or may have been intentionally
removed as not belonging to the book. That alterations were made by the
binder is evident from the fact that the copy to which Malone refers as
the _second_ of those in Vol. IV. is in reality the _first_. Malone,
writing his note when Vol. IV. was arranged for binding, described
the then order of the plays, which must afterwards have been altered.
In any case, however Malone's statement is to be accounted for, it is
quite clear that Boswell must have described the Quarto after it was
bound, when the title could not have existed.
We have said that Boswell quotes the three Quartos of Lear, now in the
Bodleian, by the letters A, B, C, respectively. In doing so, however,
he is not consistent. We record his mistakes that others may not be
misled by them. Bearing in mind therefore that A = Q₂ (Bodl. 1), B =
Q₁, and C = Q₂ (Bodl. 2), we find in Act II. Scene 2 (Vol. X. p. 97)
'Quarto B, _ausrent_; Quarto A, reads _unreverent_.' Here B and A
should change places. In Act III. Scene 7 (p. 188), 'Quarto A omits
_roguish_:' for A read C. In Act IV. Scene 2 (p. 199), for 'Quartos B
and C, _the whistling_,' read 'Quarto C' alone. In Act IV. Scene 6 (p.
220) B and A should again be interchanged. In Act V. Scene 3 (p. 277),
'Quarto A omits this line'; for A read B. It will be seen from these
instances that A has been in turn made to represent three different
copies.
The differences in various copies of Q₂ are accounted for by supposing
that the corrections were made before the sheets were all worked
off, and that the corrected and uncorrected sheets were bound up
indiscriminately. It will be observed that the readings of the
uncorrected sheets of Q₂ agree for the most part with those of Q₁,
and this led us to the conclusion which had previously been arrived
at by Capell and also by J. P. Kemble, that the edition which we have
called Q₁ was the earlier of the two printed in the same year. But upon
collating a copy of Q₂ in the Bodleian, which we have called Q₂ (Bodl.
1), we found evidence which points to an opposite conclusion. In Kent's
soliloquy (II. 2. 160) that copy, as will be seen in our notes, reads,
nothing almost sees _my rackles_
But miserie, &c.
which of course is an accidental corruption, by displacement of the
type, of 'myrackles' (i.e. 'miracles') the true reading. In the
corrected copies of Q₂ this is altered, apparently by the printer's
conjecture, to 'my wracke', which is also the reading of Q₁. Throughout
the sheet in which this occurs the readings of Q₁ agree with the
corrected copies of Q₂, and had it not been for the instance quoted, we
might have supposed that the corrections in the latter were made from
Q₁. But the corruption 'my rackles' for 'miracles' must have come from
the original MS., and 'my wracke' is only a conjectural emendation, so
that the order of succession in this sheet at least appears to be the
following. First the uncorrected copy of Q₂, then the same corrected,
and lastly Q₁. On the other hand it is remarkable that Q₁, if printed
from Q₂ at all, must have been printed from a copy made up, with the
exception just mentioned from II. 1. 128 to II. 4. 133, and another
containing from IV. 6. 224 to V. 3. 64, of uncorrected sheets. Another
hypothesis which might be made is that Q₁ and Q₂ were printed from the
same manuscript, and that the printer of Q₁ corrupted 'miracles' into
'my wracke', while the printer of Q₂ made it 'my rackles', which was
afterwards altered by a reference to Q₁. The question, however, is
very difficult to decide, and at most is one rather of bibliographical
curiosity than of critical importance. We may mention that, without
giving the reasons for his conclusion, Jennens, in his edition of
_Lear_ in 1770, quotes as the 1st Quarto that which we have called Q₂
and vice versa.
A third Quarto, which we have called Q₃, was printed very carelessly
page for page from Q₁ and published in 1655.
In the first Folio _King Lear_ was printed from an independent
manuscript, and its text is on the whole much superior to that of the
Quartos. Each however supplies passages which are wanting in the other.
Capell appears to have prepared the play for press in the first
instance from Pope's first edition. The manuscript readings and stage
directions, marked in his copy of that edition but not adopted in his
own, we have quoted as 'Capell MS'.
* * * * *
3. OTHELLO was first printed in Quarto in 1622 with the following title:
THE | Tragœdy of Othello, | The Moore of Venice. | _As it
hath beene diuerse times acted at the_ | Globe, and at the
Black-Friers, by | _his Maiesties Seruants_. | _Written by_
William Shakespeare. | _LONDON_,| Printed by _N. O._ for
_Thomas Walkley_, and are to be sold at his | shop, at the
Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse. | 1622. |
To this edition which we call Q₁, the following preface was affixed by
the publisher:
The Stationer to the Reader.
_To set forth a booke without an Epistle, were like to the old
English prouerbe_, A blew coat without a badge, _& the Author
being dead, I thought good to take that piece of worke vpon
mee: To commend it, I will not, for that which is good, I hope
euery man will commend, without intreaty: and I am the bolder,
because the Authors name is sufficient to vent his worke. Thus
leauing euery one to the liberty of iudgement: I haue ventered
to print this Play, and leaue it to the generall censure._
_Yours_,
Thomas Walkley.
This first Quarto contains many oaths and expletives, which in all the
later editions are altered or omitted. This shows that the MS. from
which it was printed had not been recently used as an acting copy. Many
passages are omitted in Q₁, by accident or design, and some which we
find only in the later editions look like afterthoughts of the author.
The title-page of the second Quarto is letter for letter the same as
the first, except that it has the following imprint:
_LONDON_,| Printed by _A. M._ for _Richard Hawkins_, and are to
be sold at | his shoppe in Chancery-Lane, neere Sergeants-Inne.
| 1630. |
Of this Quarto, which we term Q₂, Mr Collier says: 'It was
unquestionably printed from a manuscript different from that used for
the Quarto of 1622, or for the Folio of 1623.' But after a minute
comparison of the two it appears to us clear that the Quarto of 1630
must have been printed from a copy of the Quarto of 1622, which had
received additions and corrections in manuscript. The resemblances
between the two are too close to allow of any other supposition. These
additions and corrections, though agreeing for the most part with the
first Folio, which had appeared in the interval, were derived from an
independent source.
The third Quarto, which we refer to as Q₃, was printed from the second,
and is called 'The Fourth Edition.' It has the following imprint:
_LONDON_, | Printed for _William Leak_ at the _Crown_ _in
Fleet-_ | _street_, between the two Temple Gates, 1655 |
Jennens, in his edition of _Othello_, published in 1773, was not aware
of the existence of the Quarto of 1630, and quotes as the readings of
the second Quarto those of the edition of 1655.
An edition in Quarto, without date, is quoted by Capell on the
authority of Pope; but on reference to Pope's list it appears that,
though he has omitted the date, he refers to the Quarto of 1622, which
contains the publisher's preface.
The kindness of Sir S. Morton Peto has enabled us to consult a copy of
the first Quarto in the library at Chipstead, which, in cases where its
readings differ from those of the copies in the Capell and Devonshire
collections, we have distinguished as Q₁ (Chip.) A Players' Quarto of
1695, for the use of which, as well as for other acts of kindness, we
have to thank Sir Charles Bunbury, is quoted as Q (1695).
In the Addenda we have given some readings which we had not previously
seen from an anonymous tract published in 1752, with the title,
_Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of
Denmark_. The rest are chiefly from books which have been published
since the greater part of our volume was struck off.
W. G. C.
W. A. W.
ADDENDA.
HAMLET, I. 1. 117, 118. Add to note, _As stars with ...
Distempered_ or _As stars with ... Discoloured_
Staunton conj.
I. 4. 36, 37. Add to note, _the dram of leaven ... of
a dough_ Cartwright conj. _the dram of evil ... oft
weigh down_ Bailey conj.
I. 4. 73. _your ... reason_] _of sovereignty your_
Hunter conj.
I. 5. 11. _And for_] _Tho' in_ Anon. MS.
I. 5. 32, 34. _shouldst ... Wouldst_] _wouldst ...
Shouldst_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
II. 2. 82. Add to note, _And think upon and answer_
Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
II. 2. 140. _out of thy star_] _out of thy soar_ Bailey
conj.
II. 2. 162. _Be ... then;_] _Let ... then_ Anon. conj.
(Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
II. 2. 438, 439. _tyrannous ... murder_] _treacherous
and damned light To the vile murtherer_ Anon. conj.
(Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
III. 1. 58. _slings and arrows_] _stings and harrows_
Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). _stings
and horrors_ Anon. MS.
III. 2. 21. _scorn_] _sin_ Bailey conj.
III. 2. 22. _the very age_] _the visage_ Bailey conj.
III. 2. 23. _pressure_] _posture_ Bailey conj.
III. 2. 206. _Nor ... give_] _Let earth not give me_
Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
III. 3. 15. _The cease of_] _Deceasing_ Bailey conj.
III. 3. 169. Add to note, _And either house_ Bailey conj.
IV. 7. 112. _begun_] _begnawn_ Bailey conj.
V. 2, 180. _and outward ... a kind_] _and out of the
habit of encounter get a kind_ Bailey conj.
V. 2. 180, 181. _collection_] _diction_ Bailey conj.
V. 2. 182. Add to note, _profound and renowned_ Bailey
conj.
KING LEAR, I. 1. 72. Add to note, _precious treasure_
Bailey conj.
I. 1. 226. Add to note, _burden, or_ Bailey conj.
II. 4. 92. Add to note, _Fiery? what? quality?_ Taylor
conj. MS.
HAMLET.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[A].
CLAUDIUS, king of Denmark.
HAMLET, son to the late, and nephew to the present king.
POLONIUS, lord chamberlain.
HORATIO, friend to Hamlet.
LAERTES, son to Polonius.
VOLTIMAND, }
CORNELIUS, }
ROSENCRANTZ, } courtiers.
GUILDENSTERN, }
OSRIC, }
A Gentleman, }
A Priest.
MARCELLUS, } officers.
BERNARDO, }
FRANCISCO, a soldier.
REYNALDO, servant to Polonius.
Players.
Two Clowns, grave-diggers.
FORTINBRAS, prince of Norway.
A Captain.
English Ambassadors.
GERTRUDE, queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet.
OPHELIA, daughter to Polonius.
Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and other
Attendants.
Ghost of Hamlet's Father.
SCENE: _Denmark_[B].
[A] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] First given by Rowe.
[B] Denmark] Edd. (Globe ed.) Elsinoor. Rowe.
THE TRAGEDY OF
HAMLET
PRINCE OF DENMARK.
ACT I.
SCENE I. _Elsinore. A platform before the castle._
FRANCISCO _at his post. Enter to him_ BERNARDO.[1]
_Ber._ Who's there?[2][3]
_Fran._ Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.[3]
_Ber._ Long live the king![3]
_Fran._ Bernardo?[3][4]
_Ber._ He.[3] 5
_Fran._ You come most carefully upon your hour.[5]
_Ber._ 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.[6]
_Fran._ For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
_Ber._ Have you had quiet guard?
_Fran._ Not a mouse stirring. 10
_Ber._ Well, good night.[7]
If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,[7][8]
The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.[7][8]
_Fran._ I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who is there?[9]
_Enter_ HORATIO _and_ MARCELLUS.
_Hor._ Friends to this ground.
_Mar._ And liegemen to the Dane. 15
_Fran._ Give you good night.[10]
_Mar._ O, farewell, honest soldier:[11][12]
Who hath relieved you?[13]
_Fran._ Bernardo hath my place.[13]
Give you good night. [_Exit._[10][13]
_Mar._ Holla! Bernardo!
_Ber._ Say,[14][15]
What, is Horatio there?[14]
_Hor._ A piece of him.[16]
_Ber._ Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. 20
_Mar._ What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?[17]
_Ber._ I have seen nothing.
_Mar._ Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,[18]
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:[19] 25
Therefore I have entreated him along[20]
With us to watch the minutes of this night,[20]
That if again this apparition come,
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
_Hor._ Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
_Ber._ Sit down awhile;[21] 30
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story,[22]
What we have two nights seen.[22][23]
_Hor._ Well, sit we down,
And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
_Ber._ Last night of all, 35
When yond same star that's westward from the pole[24]
Had made his course to illume that part of heaven[25]
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
The bell then beating one,--[26]
_Enter_ Ghost.
_Mar._ Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again![27] 40
_Ber._ In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
_Mar._ Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
_Ber._ Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.[28]
_Hor._ Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.[29]
_Ber._ It would be spoke to.
_Mar._ Question it, Horatio.[30] 45
_Hor._ What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night,[31]
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak![32]
_Mar._ It is offended.
_Ber._ See, it stalks away! 50
_Hor._ Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak![33]
[_Exit Ghost._
_Mar._ 'Tis gone, and will not answer.
_Ber._ How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:
Is not this something more than fantasy?
What think you on't?[34] 55
_Hor._ Before my God, I might not this believe[35]
Without the sensible and true avouch[36]
Of mine own eyes.
_Mar._ Is it not like the king?
_Hor._ As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on[37] 60
When he the ambitious Norway combated;[38]
So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.[39]
'Tis strange.[40]
_Mar._ Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,[41] 65
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.[42]
_Hor._ In what particular thought to work I know not;[43]
But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,[44]
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
_Mar._ Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,[45] 70
Why this same strict and most observant watch
So nightly toils the subject of the land,[46]
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,[47]
And foreign mart for implements of war;
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task 75
Does not divide the Sunday from the week;[48]
What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:[49]
Who is't that can inform me?
_Hor._ That can I;
At least the whisper goes so. Our last king, 80
Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,[50]
Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--[51]
For so this side of our known world esteem'd him-- 85
Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,[52]
Well ratified by law and heraldry,[53]
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands[54]
Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:[55]
Against the which, a moiety competent 90
Was gaged by our king; which had return'd[56]
To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant[57]
And carriage of the article design'd,[58]
His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,[59] 95
Of unimproved mettle hot and full,[60]
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,[61][62]
For food and diet, to some enterprise[62]
That hath a stomach in't: which is no other--[63] 100
As it doth well appear unto our state--[64]
But to recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands[65]
So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations, 105
The source of this our watch and the chief head
Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
_Ber._ I think it be no other but e'en so:[66][67]
Well may it sort, that this portentous figure[66]
Comes armed through our watch, so like the king[66] 110
That was and is the question of these wars.[66]
_Hor._ A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.[66][68]
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,[66][69]
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,[66]
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead[66][70] 115
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:[66][71]
. . . . . . .
As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,[66][72][73]
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,[66][74][73]
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands,[66]
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:[66] 120
And even the like precurse of fierce events,[66][75]
As harbingers preceding still the fates[66][76]
And prologue to the omen coming on,[66][77]
Have heaven and earth together demonstrated[66]
Unto our climatures and countrymen.[66][78] 125
_Re-enter_ Ghost.
But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion![79]
If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
Speak to me:[80]
If there be any good thing to be done,[80] 130
That may to thee do ease and grace to me,[81]
Speak to me:[81]
If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,[82][83]
O, speak![82] 135
Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,[84]
Speak of it: stay, and speak! [_The cock crows._] Stop it,
Marcellus.[85]
_Mar._ Shall I strike at it with my partisan?[86] 140
_Hor._ Do, if it will not stand.[87][88]
_Ber._ 'Tis here![87]
_Hor._ 'Tis here![87]
_Mar._ 'Tis gone! [_Exit Ghost._[87][89]
We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence;
For it is, as the air, invulnerable,[90] 145
And our vain blows malicious mockery.
_Ber._ It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
_Hor._ And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,[91] 150
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day, and at his warning,[92]
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,[92]
The extravagant and erring spirit hies[92][93]
To his confine: and of the truth herein[92] 155
This present object made probation.
_Mar._ It faded on the crowing of the cock.[94]
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes[95]
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:[96] 160
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,[97]
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm,[98]
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.[99]
_Hor._ So have I heard and do in part believe it. 165
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:[100]
Break we our watch up; and by my advice,[101]
Let us impart what we have seen to-night
Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,[102] 170
This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him:
Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,[103]
As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
_Mar._ Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know[104]
Where we shall find him most conveniently. [_Exeunt._[105] 175
SCENE II. _A room of state in the castle._
_Flourish. Enter the_ KING, QUEEN, HAMLET, POLONIUS, LAERTES,
VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords, _and_ Attendants.[106]
_King._ Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death[107]
The memory be green, and that it us befitted[107][108]
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom[109]
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature 5
That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,[110]
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,[111]
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,-- 10
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,[112]
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone 15
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.[113]
Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,[114]
Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, 20
Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,[115]
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,[116]
To our most valiant brother. So much for him.[117] 25
Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting:[118]
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears[119]
Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress 30
His further gait herein; in that the levies,[120]
The lists and full proportions, are all made
Out of his subject: and we here dispatch[121]
You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,[122]
For bearers of this greeting to old Norway,[123] 35
Giving to you no further personal power[124]
To business with the king more than the scope[124]
Of these delated articles allow.[125]
Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.[126]
_Cor._} In that and all things will we show our duty.[127] 40
_Vol._}
_King._ We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.[128]
[_Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius._
And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?[129]
You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
And lose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,[130] 45
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?[131]
The head is not more native to the heart,[132]
The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.[133]
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
_Laer._ My dread lord,[134] 50
Your leave and favour to return to France,
From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
To show my duty in your coronation,
Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France[135] 55
And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
_King._ Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?[136]
_Pol._ He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave[137][138][139]
By laboursome petition, and at last[138][139][140]
Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:[139] 60
I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
_King._ Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,[141]
And thy best graces spend it at thy will![141][142]
But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--[143]
_Ham._ [_Aside_] A little more than kin, and less than kind.[144] 65
_King._ How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
_Ham._ Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.[145]
_Queen_ Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,[146]
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not for ever with thy vailed lids[147] 70
Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,[148]
Passing through nature to eternity.
_Ham._ Ay, madam, it is common.
_Queen._ If it be,
Why seems it so particular with thee? 75
_Ham._ Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,[149]
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 80
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,[150]
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,[151]
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passes show;[152] 85
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
_King._ 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,[153]
To give these mourning duties to your father:
But, you must know, your father lost a father,
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound[154] 90
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever[155]
In obstinate condolement is a course[156]
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:[156][157]
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, 95
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,[158]
An understanding simple and unschool'd:
For what we know must be and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we in our peevish opposition 100
Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd, whose common theme[159]
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,[160] 105
'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us[161]
As of a father: for let the world take note,[162]
You are the most immediate to our throne,
And with no less nobility of love[163][164] 110
Than that which dearest father bears his son[164]
Do I impart toward you. For your intent[164][165]
In going back to school in Wittenberg,[166]
It is most retrograde to our desire:[167]
And we beseech you, bend you to remain[168] 115
Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Our chiefest courtier, cousin and our son.
_Queen._ Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:[169]
I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.[170]
_Ham._ I shall in all my best obey you, madam.[171] 120
_King._ Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:[172]
Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;
This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet
Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,[173]
No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day, 125
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,[174]
And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,[175]
Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.[176]
[_Flourish. Exeunt all but Hamlet._
_Ham._ O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,[177]
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! 130
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God![178]
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable[179]
Seem to me all the uses of this world![180]
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,[181] 135
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this![182]
But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,[183]
Hyperion to a satyr: so loving to my mother,[183][184] 140
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven[185]
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth![186]
Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,[186][187]
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--[188] 145
Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--[189]
A little month, or ere those shoes were old[190]
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,[191]
Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she,--[192]
O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,[193] 150
Would have mourn'd longer,--married with my uncle,[194]
My father's brother, but no more like my father[195]
Than I to Hercules: within a month;
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears[196]
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,[197] 155
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets![198]
It is not, nor it cannot come to good:
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue![199]
_Enter_ HORATIO, MARCELLUS, _and_ BERNARDO.
_Hor._ Hail to your lordship!
_Ham._ I am glad to see you well:[200][201] 160
Horatio,--or I do forget myself.[201][202]
_Hor._ The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.[203]
_Ham._ Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:[204]
And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?
Marcellus?[205] 165
_Mar._ My good lord?[206]
_Ham._ I am very glad to see you. [_To Ber._] Good even, sir.[207]
But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?[208]
_Hor._ A truant disposition, good my lord.[209]
_Ham._ I would not hear your enemy say so,[210] 170
Nor shall you do my ear that violence,[211]
To make it truster of your own report[212]
Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
But what is your affair in Elsinore?[213]
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.[214] 175
_Hor._ My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
_Ham._ I prethee, do not mock me, fellow-student;[215]
I think it was to see my mother's wedding.[216]
_Hor._ Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.[217]
_Ham._ Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked-meats 180
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio![218]
My father!--methinks I see my father.
_Hor._ O where, my lord?
_Ham._ In my mind's eye, Horatio.[219] 185
_Hor._ I saw him once; he was a goodly king.[220]
_Ham._ He was a man, take him for all in all,[220][221]
I shall not look upon his like again.[222]
_Hor._ My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
_Ham._ Saw? Who?[223] 190
_Hor._ My lord, the king your father.
_Ham._ The king my father!
_Hor._ Season your admiration for a while[224]
With an attent ear, till I may deliver,[225]
Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
This marvel to you.
_Ham._ For God's love, let me hear.[226] 195
_Hor._ Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,
In the dead vast and middle of the night,[227]
Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,[228] 200
Appears before them, and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd[229]
By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,[230]
Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd[231]
Almost to jelly with the act of fear,[232] 205
Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful secrecy impart they did;[233]
And I with them the third night kept the watch:
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,[234]
Form of the thing, each word made true and good, 210
The apparition comes: I knew your father;[235]
These hands are not more like.
_Ham._ But where was this?
_Mar._ My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
_Ham._ Did you not speak to it?
_Hor._ My lord, I did,[236]
But answer made it none: yet once methought[237] 215
It lifted up its head and did address[238]
Itself to motion, like as it would speak:[239]
But even then the morning cock crew loud,
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away
And vanish'd from our sight.
_Ham._ 'Tis very strange. 220
_Hor._ As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true,[240]
And we did think it writ down in our duty[241]
To let you know of it.[242]
_Ham._ Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.[243]
Hold you the watch to-night?
_Mar._ } We do, my lord.[244] 225
_Ber._ }
_Ham._ Arm'd, say you?
_Mar._ } Arm'd, my lord.
_Ber._ }
_Ham._ From top to toe?[244]
_Mar._ } My lord, from head to foot.[244][245][246]
_Ber._ }
_Ham._ Then saw you not his face?[246][247]
_Hor._ O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.[246][248]
_Ham._ What, look'd he frowningly?[249] 230
_Hor._ A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
_Ham._ Pale or red?
_Hor._ Nay, very pale.
_Ham._ And fix'd his eyes upon you?
_Hor._ Most constantly.
_Ham._ I would I had been there.
_Hor._ It would have much amazed you.[250] 235
_Ham._ Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?[250][251]
_Hor._ While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.[250][252]
_Mar._} Longer, longer.[250][253]
_Ber._}
_Hor._ Not when I saw't.
_Ham._ His beard was grizzled? no?[254][255]
_Hor._ It was, as I have seen it in his life,[255][256] 240
A sable silver'd.[257]
_Ham._ I will watch to-night;
Perchance 'twill walk again.
_Hor._ I warrant it will.[258]
_Ham._ If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all, 245
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,[259]
Let it be tenable in your silence still,[260]
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,[261]
Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
I will requite your loves. So fare you well:[262] 250
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve.[263]
I'll visit you.
_All._ Our duty to your honour.[264]
_Ham._ Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.[265]
[_Exeunt all but Hamlet._
My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;[266]
I doubt some foul play: would the night were come! 255
Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,[267]
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [_Exit._
SCENE III. _A room in Polonius's house._
_Enter_ LAERTES _and_ OPHELIA.[268]
_Laer._ My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:[269]
And, sister, as the winds give benefit
And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,[270]
But let me hear from you.
_Oph._ Do you doubt that?
_Laer._ For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,[271] 5
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood,
A violet in the youth of primy nature,[272]
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,[273]
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;[274]
No more.
_Oph._ No more but so?
_Laer._ Think it no more:[275] 10
For nature crescent does not grow alone[276]
In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes,[277]
The inward service of the mind and soul[278]
Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now;
And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch[279] 15
The virtue of his will: but you must fear,[280]
His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;[281]
For he himself is subject to his birth:[282]
He may not, as unvalued persons do,[283]
Carve for himself, for on his choice depends[284] 20
The safety and health of this whole state,[285]
And therefore must his choice be circumscribed
Unto the voice and yielding of that body
Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,[286]
It fits your wisdom so far to believe it 25
As he in his particular act and place[287]
May give his saying deed; which is no further
Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,[288]
If with too credent ear you list his songs,[289] 30
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open[290]
To his unmaster'd importunity.[291]
Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,
And keep you in the rear of your affection,[292]
Out of the shot and danger of desire. 35
The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:
The canker galls the infants of the spring[293]
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,[294] 40
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
_Oph._ I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,[295] 45
As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,[296]
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,[297]
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,[298]
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads[299] 50
And recks not his own rede.[300]
_Laer._ O, fear me not.
I stay too long: but here my father comes.
_Enter_ POLONIUS.[301]
A double blessing is a double grace;[302]
Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
_Pol._ Yet here, Laertes! Aboard, aboard, for shame![303] 55
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee![304]
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,[305]
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 60
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,[306]
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,[307]
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment[308]
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware[309] 65
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't, that th' opposed may beware of thee.[310]
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice:[311]
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 70
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.[312]
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:[313] 75
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,[314]
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.[315]
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,[316]
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 80
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee![317]
_Laer._ Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.[318]
_Pol._ The time invites you; go, your servants tend.[319]
_Laer._ Farewell, Ophelia, and remember well
What I have said to you.
_Oph._ 'Tis in my memory lock'd,[320] 85
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
_Laer._ Farewell. [_Exit._[321]
_Pol._ What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?[322]
_Oph._ So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.[323]
_Pol._ Marry, well bethought: 90
'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late
Given private time to you, and you yourself
Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:
If it be so--as so 'tis put on me,
And that in way of caution--I must tell you, 95
You do not understand yourself so clearly
As it behoves my daughter and your honour.
What is between you? give me up the truth.[324]
_Oph._ He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
Of his affection to me. 100
_Pol._ Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,[325]
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.[326]
Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
_Oph._ I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
_Pol._ Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby,[327] 105
That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,[328]
Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;[329]
Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.[330]
_Oph._ My lord, he hath importuned me with love 110
In honourable fashion.
_Pol._ Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.[331]
_Oph._ And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,[332][333]
With almost all the holy vows of heaven.[332][334]
_Pol._ Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,[335] 115
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul[336]
Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,[337]
Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,[338]
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,[339]
You must not take for fire. From this time[340] 120
Be something scanter of your maiden presence;[341]
Set your entreatments at a higher rate[342]
Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,[343]
Believe so much in him, that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk[344] 125
Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
Not of that dye which their investments show,[345]
But mere implorators of unholy suits,[346]
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,[347] 130
The better to beguile. This is for all:[348]
I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
Have you so slander any moment leisure,[349]
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.[350] 135
_Oph._ I shall obey, my lord. [_Exeunt._[351]
SCENE IV. _The platform._[352]
_Enter_ HAMLET, HORATIO, _and_ MARCELLUS.
_Ham._ The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.[353]
_Hor._ It is a nipping and an eager air.[354]
_Ham._ What hour now?
_Hor._ I think it lacks of twelve.
_Mar._ No, it is struck.[355]
_Hor._ Indeed? I heard it not: it then draws near the season[356] 5
Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
[_A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within._[357]
What does this mean, my lord?[358]
_Ham._ The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,[359]
Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;[360]
And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,[361] 10
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out[362]
The triumph of his pledge.
_Hor._ Is it a custom?[363]
_Ham._ Ay, marry, is't:[364]
But to my mind, though I am native here[365]
And to the manner born, it is a custom 15
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
This heavy-headed revel east and west[366][367][368][369]
Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:[366][367][369][370]
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase[366][367][371]
Soil our addition; and indeed it takes[366][367] 20
From our achievements, though perform'd at height,[366][367]
The pith and marrow of our attribute.[366][367]
So, oft it chances in particular men,[366][367][372]
That for some vicious mole of nature in them,[366][367][373]
As, in their birth,--wherein they are not guilty,[366][367] 25
Since nature cannot choose his origin,--[366][367]
By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,[366][367][374]
Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,[366][367]
Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens[366][367]
The form of plausive manners, that these men,--[366][367] 30
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,[366][367]
Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--[366][367][375]
Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,[366][367][376]
As infinite as man may undergo--[366][367]
Shall in the general censure take corruption[366][367] 35
From that particular fault: the dram of eale[366][367][377][378]
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt[367][377][378]
To his own scandal.[367][377][379]
_Enter Ghost._
_Hor._ Look, my lord, it comes![380]
_Ham._ Angels and ministers of grace defend us![381]
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 40
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,[382]
Thou comest in such a questionable shape[383]
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me![384] 45
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell[385]
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,[385][386]
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,[387]
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,[388]
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, 50
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel,
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,[389]
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature[390]
So horridly to shake our disposition[391] 55
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?[392]
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?[393]
[_Ghost beckons Hamlet._
_Hor._ It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.
_Mar._ Look, with what courteous action 60
It waves you to a more removed ground:[394]
But do not go with it.
_Hor._ No, by no means.[395]
_Ham._ It will not speak; then I will follow it.[396]
_Hor._ Do not, my lord.
_Ham._ Why, what should be the fear?[397]
I do not set my life at a pin's fee;[398] 65
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?[399]
It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.
_Hor._ What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,[400]
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff[401] 70
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,[402]
And there assume some other horrible form,[403]
Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason[404]
And draw you into madness? think of it:[405]
The very place puts toys of desperation,[406] 75
Without more motive, into every brain[406]
That looks so many fathoms to the sea[406]
And hears it roar beneath.[406][407][408]
_Ham._ It waves me still.[407]
Go on; I'll follow thee.
_Mar._ You shall not go, my lord.
_Ham._ Hold off your hands.[409] 80
_Hor._ Be ruled; you shall not go.
_Ham._ My fate cries out,[410]
And makes each petty artery in this body[411]
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.[412]
Still am I call'd: unhand me, gentlemen;[413]
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me: 85
I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee.
[_Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet._[414]
_Hor._ He waxes desperate with imagination.[415]
_Mar._ Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.
_Hor._ Have after. To what issue will this come?
_Mar._ Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 90
_Hor._ Heaven will direct it.
_Mar._ Nay, let's follow him. [_Exeunt._[416]
SCENE V. _Another part of the platform._
_Enter_ Ghost _and_ HAMLET.[417]
_Ham._ Whither wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.[418]
_Ghost._ Mark me.
_Ham._ I will.
_Ghost._ My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames[419]
Must render up myself.
_Ham._ Alas, poor ghost!
_Ghost._ Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing[420][421] 5
To what I shall unfold.[420]
_Ham._ Speak; I am bound to hear.[422]
_Ghost._ So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.[423]
_Ham._ What?[424]
_Ghost._ I am thy father's spirit;
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 10
And for the day confined to fast in fires,[425]
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid[426]
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part[427]
And each particular hair to stand an end,[428]
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:[429] 20
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list![430]
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--[431]
_Ham._ O God![432]
_Ghost._ Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. 25
_Ham._ Murder![433]
_Ghost._ Murder most foul, as in the best it is,[434]
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
_Ham._ Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift[435]
As meditation or the thoughts of love,[436] 30
May sweep to my revenge.[437]
_Ghost._ I find thee apt;
And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed[438][439]
That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,[440]
Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:[440]
'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,[441] 35
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark[442]
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,[443]
The serpent that did sting thy father's life[444]
Now wears his crown.
_Ham._ O my prophetic soul![445] 40
My uncle![445][446]
_Ghost._ Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,[447]
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--[448]
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power[449]
So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust[450] 45
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:[451]
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there![452]
From me, whose love was of that dignity
That it went hand in hand even with the vow
I made to her in marriage; and to decline[453] 50
Upon a wretch, whose natural gifts were poor
To those of mine![454][455]
But virtue, as it never will be moved,[454]
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,[456] 55
Will sate itself in a celestial bed[457][458]
And prey on garbage.[457][459]
But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;[460]
Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,[461]
My custom always of the afternoon,[462] 60
Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,[463]
With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,[464]
And in the porches of my ears did pour[465]
The leperous distilment; whose effect[466]
Holds such an enmity with blood of man[466] 65
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body;[467]
And with a sudden vigour it doth posset[468]
And curd, like eager droppings into milk,[469]
The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; 70
And a most instant tetter bark'd about,[470]
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,
All my smooth body.
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:[471] 75
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,[472]
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd;[473]
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head:[474]
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible![475] 80
If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
A couch for luxury and damned incest.
But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,[476]
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive[477] 85
Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,[478]
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: 90
Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me. [_Exit._[479]
_Ham._ O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;[480]
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee![481][482] 95
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat[483]
In this distracted globe. Remember thee![482]
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,[484] 100
That youth and observation copied there;
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven![485]
O most pernicious woman![486] 105
0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables,--meet it is I set it down,[487][488]
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;[488]
At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. [_Writing._[488][489]
So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;[488] 110
It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'[488][490][491]
I have sworn't.[488][490][492]
_Hor._} [_Within_] My lord, my lord!
_Mar._}
_Enter_ HORATIO _and_ MARCELLUS.[493]
_Mar._ Lord Hamlet!
_Hor._ Heaven secure him![494]
_Ham._ So be it![495]
_Mar._ Illo, ho, ho, my lord![496] 115
_Ham._ Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.[497]
_Mar._ How is't, my noble lord?
_Hor._ What news, my lord?[498]
_Ham._ O, wonderful![499]
_Hor._ Good my lord, tell it.
_Ham._ No; you will reveal it.[500]
_Hor._ Not I, my lord, by heaven.
_Mar._ Nor I, my lord. 120
_Ham._ How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?[501]
But you'll be secret?[502]
_Hor._} Ay, by heaven, my lord.
_Mar._}
_Ham._ There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark[503][504]
But he's an arrant knave.[504][505]
_Hor._ There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave[506] 125
To tell us this.[506][507]
_Ham._ Why, right; you are i' the right;
And so, without more circumstance at all,
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
You, as your business and desire shall point you;[508]
For every man hath business and desire,[509] 130
Such as it is; and for my own poor part,[510]
Look you, I'll go pray.[511]
_Hor._ These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.[512]
_Ham._ I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;[513]
Yes, faith, heartily.[514]
_Hor._ There's no offence, my lord. 135
_Ham._ Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,[515]
And much offence too. Touching this vision here,[516]
It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:
For your desire to know what is between us,
O'ermaster't as you may. And now, good friends,[517] 140
As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,
Give me one poor request.
_Hor._ What is't, my lord? we will.[518]
_Ham._ Never make known what you have seen to-night.
_Hor._}
_Mar._} My lord, we will not.
_Ham._ Nay, but swear't.
_Hor._ In faith,[519][520] 145
My lord, not I.[520]
_Mar._ Nor I, my lord, in faith.
_Ham._ Upon my sword.
_Mar._ We have sworn, my lord, already.[521]
_Ham._ Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.[522]
_Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[523]
_Ham._ Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,
true-penny?[524][525] 150
Come on: you hear this fellow in the cellarage:[524][526]
Consent to swear.
_Hor._ Propose the oath, my lord.[527]
_Ham._ Never to speak of this that you have seen,[528]
Swear by my sword.
_Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529] 155
_Ham._ Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.[530]
Come hither, gentlemen,[531]
And lay your hands again upon my sword:[531]
Never to speak of this that you have heard,[531][532]
Swear by my sword.[531] 160
_Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529][533]
_Ham._ Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?[534]
A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.[535]
_Hor._ O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
_Ham._ And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.[536] 165
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.[537][538]
But come;[538][539]
Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,[539][540]
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,[541][542][543] 170
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet[541][542][544][545]
To put an antic disposition on,[541][542][544]
That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,[542][546]
With arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake,[542][547]
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,[542][548] 175
As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'[542][549][550]
Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'[542][550][551]
Or such ambiguous giving out, to note[542][552]
That you know aught of me: this not to do,[553]
So grace and mercy at your most need help you,[553] 180
Swear.[553]
_Ghost._ [_Beneath_] Swear.[529]
_Ham._ Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! [_They swear._] So,
gentlemen,[554]
With all my love I do commend me to you:[555]
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is 185
May do, to express his love and friending to you,[556]
God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;[557]
And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.[558]
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right![559] 190
Nay, come, let's go together. [_Exeunt._
FOOTNOTES:
[1] ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna prima. Ff. Omitted in Qq. See
note [I]
Elsinore.] Capell.
A platform ...] Malone. An open Place before the Palace. Rowe. A
Platform before the Palace. Theobald. Platform of the Castle. Capell.
Francisco at ...] Francisco upon ... Capell. Enter Barnardo, and
Francisco, two Centinels. Qq Ff.
[2] _Who's_] Ff Q₆. _Whose_ The rest.
[3] _Who's ... He_] As in Qq Ff. Two lines of verse in Capell, the
first ending _unfold_.
[4] _Bernardo?_] _Barnardo?_ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃. _Barnardo._ The rest.
[5] _carefully_] _chearfully_ F₃ F₄.
[6] _now struck_] _new-struck_ Elze (Steevens conj.)
_struck_] _strooke_ Qq. _strook_ F₁.
[7] _Well, ... haste._] As in Qq. Prose in Ff.
[8] _Horatio ... rivals_] _Horatio, and Marcellus The rival_ Warner
conj.
[9] _ho_] Qq. om. Ff.
_Who is_] Qq. _who's_ Ff.
Enter ...] Qq Ff (after line 13).
[10] _Give you_] om. Q (1676).
[11] _O, farewell ... night._] Arranged as by Capell. Two lines in Qq
Ff.
[12] _soldier_] Ff. _souldiers_ Qq.
[13] _Who hath_] _Who has_ Q (1676).
_hath my_] Qq. _ha's my_ F₁ F₂ _has my_ F₃ F₄.
[14] [Exit.] Exit Fran. Qq F₁. Exit Francisco. F₂ F₃ F₄.
_Say,_] _Say._ Knight.
[15] _Say, ... there?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[16] [Giving his hand. Warburton.
[17] Mar.] (Q₁) Ff. Hora. Qq.
_What, has_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff Q₆. _What has_ Q₄ Q₅.
_to-night?_] _to night?_ Qq. _to night._ Ff.
[18] _our_] _a_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[19] _sight_] _spright_ Warburton conj.
[20] _along With us to_] _along, With us to_ Qq. _along With us, to_ Ff.
[21] _Tush, tush,_] om. Q (1676).
[22] _story, What ... seen._] _story._ Mar. _What ... seen--_Hanmer.
[23] _have two nights_] (Q₁) Qq. _two nights have_ Ff.
_sit we_] _let's_ Q (1676).
[24] _yond_] _yon_ F₃ F₄.
[25] _to illume_] _t' illume_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Ff. _t' illumin_ Q₅. _t'
illumine_ Q₆. _to Illumine_ (Q₁). _to enlighten_ Q (1676).
[26] _beating_] _towling_ (Q₁). _tolling_ Collier MS. See note (II).
_one,--_] _one--_ Rowe. _one._ Qq Ff.
[Castle-bell tolls one. Ingleby conj.
Enter Ghost.] Qq. Enter the Ghost. Ff, after _off;_ line 40. Enter the
Ghost armed. Collier MS.
[27] _Peace ... again!_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
_off_] _of_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ (Capell's copy).
[28] Ber. _Looks ... Horatio._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_Looks it_] _Lookes a_ Q₂ Q₃. _Looke it_ F₂.
[29] _harrows_] F₃ F₄. _horrowes_ Qq. _harrowes_ F₁ F₂. _horrors_ (Q₁).
_startles_ Q (1676).
[30] _Question_] (Q₁) Ff. _Speake to_ Qq.
[31] _usurp'st_] _usurpest_ Q (1676).
[32] _march?_] Q₆. _march,_ Q₂ Q₃. _march:_ The rest.
_by heaven_] om. Q (1676).
_thee,_] Rowe. _thee_ Qq Ff.
[33] _speak, speak!_] _speak;_ Pope.
[Exit Ghost.] Qq. Exit the Ghost. Ff.
[34] _on't_] _of it_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[35] _Before ... believe_] _I could not believe this_ Q (1676).
_not_] _nor_ F₂.
[36] _true_] _try'd_ Warburton.
[37] _very_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[38] _he_] om. Ff.
[39] _smote_] _smot_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂ F₃.
_sledded_] Ff. _sleaded_ (Q₁) Qq. _sturdy_ Leo conj.
_Polacks_] Malone. _pollax_ (Q₁)Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Pollax_ Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆.
_Polax_ F₃. _Pole-axe_ F₄. _Pole-axe_ Rowe. _Polack_ Pope.
[40] _'Tis strange._] _'Tis strange--_ Rowe. om. Seymour conj.
[41] _jump_] (Q₁) Qq. _just_ Ff.
_jump at this dead_] _at the same_ Q (1676).
_dead_] _same_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _dread_ Anon. conj.
[42] _hath he gone by_] _he passed throught_ (Q₁) Staunton.
[43] _thought to_] _it_ Collier MS. See note(II).
[44] _gross and_] om. Q (1676).
_my_] (Q₁) Ff. _mine_ Qq.
[45] _Good now,_] _Pray_ Q (1676).
[46] _subject_] _subjects_ Pope.
[47] _why_] (Q₁) Ff. _with_ Qq.
_cast_] _cost_ (Q₁) Qq.
[48] _Does_] _Dos't_ F₃ F₄.
[49] _Doth make_] _Makes_ Q (1676).
_joint-labourer_] _joint labour_ Q₅ Q₆.
[50] _emulate_] _emulant_ Seymour conj.
[51] _combat_] _fight_ Pope.
[52] _a_] om. Pope.
[53] _and_] _of_ Hanmer (Warburton).
_heraldry_] _heraldy_ Q₂ Q₃.
[54] _those_] Ff. _these_ Qq.
[55] _of_] Qq. _on_ Ff. _in_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[56] _return'd_] Ff. _returne_ Qq. _remain'd_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[57] _vanquisher;_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _vanquisher,_ Ff. _vanquisht;_ Q₆.
_the same_] _that_ Pope.
_covenant_] _Cov'nant_ Ff. _comart_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _co-mart_ Q₆.
_compact_ Q (1676).
[58] _article design'd_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _article desseigne_ Q₂ Q₃. _articles
deseigne_ Q₄. _Articles designe_ Q₅ Q₆. _Article designe_ F₁. _articles
design'd_ Pope. _article then sign'd_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[59] _sir_] om. Pope
[60] _unimproved_] _inapproved_ (Q₁) Collier conj. _unapproved_ Anon.
conj.
_mettle_] _metall_ Q₆.
[61] _lawless_] _lawelesse_ Q₂ Q₃. _lawlesse_ (Q₁) Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_landlesse_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _landless_ F₄.
[62] _lawless ... diet, to_] _landless resolutes, For food; and dieted
to_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[63] _is_] om. Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[64] _As_] Qq. _And_ Ff.
[65] _compulsatory_] Qq. _compulsative_ Ff.
[66] Ber. _I think ... countrymen._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[67] _e'en so_] _enso_ Q₂ Q₃. _even so_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[68] _mote_] Q₅ Q₆. _moth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[69] _palmy_] _flourishing_ Q (1676) and Rowe.
_state_] _State_ (i.e. _city_) Wilson conj.
[70] _tenantless_] _tennatlesse_ Q₂ Q₃.
_and_] om. Pope.
[71] _streets: ..._] Omission first marked by Jennens, who suggests
_Tremendous prodigies in heaven appear'd._ Boaden proposes _The heavens
too spoke in silent prodigies._ Hunter suggests _In the heavens above
strange portents did appear._ Becket would transfer line 123 _And
prologue ... on to follow streets:_ line 116.
[72] _As ... blood,_] _Stars shon with trains of fire, dews of blood
fell,_ Rowe. Omitted by Rann. Transferred by Mitford to follow
_events,_ line 121.
_and dews_] _shed dews_ Harness, reading _Disasters dimm'd_ in line 118.
[73] _As stars with ... Disasters in_] _Astres with ... Disasterous
dimm'd_ Malone conj. _Disastrous ... Disasters in_ Becket conj. _A star
with ... Disasters in_ Jackson conj. _As stars with ... Did usher in_
Duane conj. _As stars with ... Disastering_ Anon. apud Singer (ed. 2)
conj. _Astres with ... Did overcast_ Williams conj. _Ay, stars
with ... Did darken e'en_ or _Ay, stars with ... Did enter in_ or _Ay,
stars with ... Dy'd darkening_ Leo conj. _As stars with ... Disastrous
dimm'd_ or _And stars with ... Disastrous dimm'd_ Anon. conj. (N. and
Q.) _Asters with ... Disasters in_ Brae conj. (N. and Q.) _As stars,
with ... Disastrous, ev'n_ or _As stars, with ... Disastrous hid_
Taylor conj. MS.
_As stars with ... Distempered_ or _As stars with ... Discoloured_
Staunton conj.
[74] _in_] _veil'd_ Rowe. _dim'd_ Capell.
[75] _fierce_] Q₅ Q₆. _fearce_ Q₄. _feare_ Q₂ Q₃. _fear'd_ Collier conj.
[76] _As_] _Are_ Mitford conj.
[77] _omen_] _omen'd_ Theobald. _omens_ Becket conj.
[78] _climatures_] _climature_ Dyce conj.
Re-enter Ghost.] Enter Ghost. Qq. Enter Ghost againe. Ff.
[79] [It spreads his armes. Qq. om. Ff. He spreads his arms. Q (1676).
[80] _Speak ... done_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.
[81] _That ... Speak to me_] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[82] _Which ... speak!_] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[83] _foreknowing_] _foreknowledge_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[84] _you_] Ff. _your_ Qq.
[85] [The cock crows.] Qq, after line 138. om. Ff.
[86] _at_] Ff. om. Qq.
[87] Hor ... Ber ... Hor ... Mar.] Ber ... Mar ... Ber ... Hor.
Steevens conj.
[88] _if it will_] _if't will_ S. Walker conj., ending lines 140, 141
_Do, ... gone!_
[89] [Exit Ghost.] Ff. om. Qq.
[90] _For it is, as_] _It is ever as_ Q (1676).
[91] _morn_] _morne_ Qq. _morning_ (Q₁). _day_ Ff.
[92] _warning, ... confine:_] _warning, Th' extravagant ... hies To his
confine, whether in sea or air, Or earth or fire_ Johnson conj.
[93] _extravagant_] _extra-vagate_ Grey conj.
[94] _on_] _at_ Q (1676).
[95] _say_] Qq. _sayes_ Ff.
[96] _The_] (Q₁) Ff. _This_ Qq.
[97] _then_] om. F₂F₃F₄.
_dare stir_] _dare sturre_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _dare stirre_ Q₅. _dares stirre_
Q₆. _dare walke_ (Q₁). _can walke_ Ff. _dares walk_ Rowe. _walks_ Pope.
[98] _takes_] Qq. _talkes_ F₁ F₂. _talks_ F₃ F₄.
_nor_] _no_ Q₆ F₄.
[99] _the_] Ff. _that_ (Q₁) Qq.
[100] _eastward_] Qq. _easterne_ Ff.
[101] _advice_] Ff. _advise_ Qq.
[102] _for, upon my life,_] _perhaps_ Q (1676).
[103] _shall_] _do_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[104] _Let's_] _Let_ F₁.
[105] _conveniently_] (Q₁) Ff. _convenient_ Qq.
A room ...] Capell, substantially. The Palace. Rowe
Flourish.] Qq. om. Ff.
[106] Enter ...] Malone, after Capell. Enter Claudius, King of
Denmarke, Gertrad the Queene, Counsaile: as Polonius, and his Sonne
Laertes, Hamlet, Cum Alijs. Qq. Enter Claudius King of Denmarke,
Gertrude the Queene, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, and his Sister Ophelia,
Lords Attendant. Ff (Attendants F₂ F₃ F₄).
[107] _Though ... memory be_] _As ... memory's_ Seymour conj.
[108] _that it us befitted_] _us befitted_ Steevens conj. _it befitted
us_ Seymour conj.
_us befitted_] _fitted_ Pope.
[109] _bear_] _bathe_ Collier MS.
[110] _sometime_] Qq. _sometimes_ Ff.
[111] _to_] Qq. _of_ Ff.
[112] _an ... a_] Qq. _one ... one_ Ff. _once ... once_ Becket conj.
_a dropping_] _one drooping_ Grant White.
[113] _along. For ... thanks._] _along: (for ... thanks.)_ Pope. _along
(for all our thankes)_ Qq. _along, for all our thankes._ Ff.
[114] _know, young_] _know: young_ S. Walker conj.
[115] _Colleagued_] _Collogued_ Hanmer (Theobald conj). _Co-leagued_
Capell. _Colluded_ Becket conj.
_this_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
_his_] _this_ Long MS. and Collier MS. See note (II).
[116] _with_] _by_ Pope.
_bonds_] Ff. _bands_ Qq.
[117] [Enter Voltemand and Cornelius. Ff (Voltimand F₂ F₃ F₄). om. Qq.
[118] _meeting:_] F₄. _meeting,_ Qq. _meeting_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[119] _bed-rid_] _bedred_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[120] _gait_] Capell. _gate_ Qq Ff.
_herein; in_] _heerein, in_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _herein, in_ Q₅ Q₆. _herein. In_
Ff.
_the_] _he_ F₃ F₄.
[121] _subject_] _subjects_ Q₆.
_here_] _now_ Q (1676).
[122] _Voltimand_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Valtemand_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Voltemand_ F₁
Q₆. _Voltemar_ (Q₁).
[123] _For bearers_] (Q₁) Qq. _For bearing_ Ff. _Our bearers_ Theobald
conj.
_For bearers of this greeting_] _Ambassadors_ Q (1676).
[124] _Giving to you ... To business_] _Who have ... Of treaty_ Q
(1676). _Giving to you ... Of treaty_ Rowe.
_more than_] _than does_ Seymour conj.
[125] _Of_] _Which_ Pope.
_delated_] Qq. _dilated_ Ff. _related_ (Q₁) Singer (ed. 1).
_allow._] _allows._ Johnson. _allow._ [Give them. Collier MS. See note
(II).
[126] _duty_] _service_ S. Walker conj.
[127] Cor. Vol.] Cor. Vo. Qq. Volt. Ff.
[128] _it nothing_] _in nothing_ F₄.
[Exeunt....] F₄. Exit ... F₁ F₂ F₃. Omitted in Qq.
[129] _And_] om. Q (1676).
[130] _lose_] Qq. _loose_ Ff.
[131] _not thy_] _nor thy_ Q (1676).
[132] _head_] _blood_ Hanmer (Warburton).
_native_] _motive_ Bubier conj.
[133] _is ... to_] _to ... is_ Hanmer (Warburton).
[134] _My dread_] Qq. _Dread my_ Ff. _My Dear_ Q (1676).
[135] _toward_] Qq. _towards_ Ff.
[136] _Have ... Polonius?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[137] _He hath_] _Hath_ Q₂ Q₃.
_lord,_] _lord:_ Ff.
[138] _wrung ... petition_] _by laboursome petition, Wrung from me my
slow leave_ Rowe and Pope.
[139] _wrung ... consent:_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[140] _at last_] _at the last_ Pope.
[141] _be thine ... spend_] _is thine, And my best graces; spend_
Johnson conj.
[142] _graces_] _graces;_ Q₆.
[Exit Laertes. Anon. conj. Exit. (Q₁).
[143] _Hamlet, and_] _Hamlet.--Kind_ Warburton.
_son,--_] _son--_ Rowe. _sonne._ Qq. _sonne?_ Ff.
[144] [Aside] Warburton.
[145] _so_] Ff. _so much_ Qq.
_i' the sun_] _i' th' Sun_ Ff. _in the sonne_ Qq. _in the Sun_ Q (1676).
[146] _nighted_] Qq. _nightly_ Ff. _night-like_ Collier MS.
[147] _vailed_] Qq. _veyled_ F₁ F₂. _veiled_ F₃ F₄.
[148] _know'st 'tis_] _know'st--'tis_ Seymour conj.
_common;_] Theobald. _common,_ Ff. _common_ Qq.
_lives_] Qq F₁. _live_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[149] _my inky_] _this mourning_ Q (1676).
_good mother_] Ff. _coold mother_ Q₂ Q₃. _could smother_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[150] _moods_] _modes_ Capell.
_shapes_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _chapes_ Q₂ Q₃. _shewes_ F₁ F₂. _shews_ F₃ F₄.
[151] _denote_] Ff Q₆. _deuote_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _deuoute_ Q₅.
_indeed_] _may_ Pope.
[152] _passes_] Qq. _passeth_ Ff.
[153] _'Tis_ ... _Hamlet,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_sweet and_] om. Seymour conj.
_Hamlet,_] om. Pope.
[154] _That_] _The_ F₄.
_lost, lost his_] _dead, lost his_ (Q₁). _his_ Pope.
[155] _sorrow_] _sorrowes_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_persever_] _persevere_ Q₆ F₄.
[156] _is a course Of_] _dares express An_ Q (1676).
[157] _'tis_] om. Pope.
[158] _a mind_] _or minde_ Qq.
[159] _absurd_] _absur'd_ F₂ F₃.
[160] _corse_] _course_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coarse_ Ff Q₆.
[161] _unprevailing_] _unavailing_ Hanmer.
[162] _for let_] _and let_ Q (1676).
[163] _with_] _with't_ Theobald.
_no less nobility_] _nobility no less_ Badham conj.
[164] _with ... impart_] _still ... impart_ or _with ... my part_ Mason
conj.
[165] _Do I_] _Mine do I_ Keightley.
_toward_] Qq. _towards_ Ff.
_you. For_] Ff. _you for_ Qq.
[166] _in Wittenberg_] _to Wittenberg_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[167] _retrograde_] F₁ Q₆ F₄. _retrogard_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _retrograd_ Q₅.
_retrogarde_ F₂ F₃.
[168] _bend_] _beg_ Anon. MS.
[169] _mother_] _Brother_ F₄.
_lose_] Ff Q₆. _loose_ The rest.
[170] _I pray thee_] Qq. _I prythee_ F₁. _I prethee_ F₂ F₃. _I prithee_
F₄.
[171] _I ... madam._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[172] _Why_] om. Q (1676).
[173] _to_] _at_ Hanmer. _on_ Ritson conj.
[174] _tell_] _tell it_ Hanmer.
[175] _rouse_] _rowse_ Qq. _rouce_ Ff.
_heaven_] Qq. _heavens_ Ff.
_bruit_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _brute_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _bruite_ F₁ F₂.
[176] Flourish.] Qq. om. Ff.
Exeunt....] Qq. Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. Ff.
[177] SCENE III. Pope.
_too too solid_] _too-too-solid_ Theobald.
_solid_] Ff. _sallied_ (Q₁) Qq. _sullied_ Anon. conj.
[178] _canon_] Q (1703). _cannon_ Qq Ff.
_self-slaughter_] _seale slaughter_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_O God! God!_] _O God, O God!_ Ff. Om. Q (1676).
[179] _weary_] Ff Q₆. _wary_ The rest.
[180] _Seem_] _Seeme_ Qq. _Seemes_ F₁ F₂. _Seems_ F₃ F₄.
[181] _Fie on't! ah fie!_] om. Q (1676).
_ah fie_] Qq. _Oh fie,_ fie F₁ F₂. _Oh fie_ F₃. _O fie_ F₄.
[182] _merely. That_] Pointed as in Ff. _meerely that_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_meerly: that_ Q₆.
_come to this_] Ff. _come thus_ Qq.
[183] _that ... satyr:_] Omitted in Q (1676).
[184] _satyr_] F₄. _satire_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _Satyre_ Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆ F₃.
[185] _he ... heaven_] _the beteened winds of heaven might not_ Becket
conj.
_might not beteem_] _permitted not_ Q (1676) and Rowe. _would not let
e'en_ Theobald (in text, ed. 1). _might not let e'en_ Theobald (in
note, ed. 1, and text, ed. 2).
_beteem_] _beteeme_ Qq. _beteene_ F₁ F₂. _beteen_ F₃. _between_ F₄.
_permit_ Southern MS.
[186] _Heaven ... remember?_] Omitted in Q (1676).
[187] _remember?_] Rowe. _remember,_ Qq. _remember:_ Ff.
_why, she would_] Pope. _why she would_ Ff. _why she should_ Qq. _she
used to_ Q (1676).
_on_] _upon_ Anon MS.
[188] _and_] om. Pope.
[189] _on't_] om. Pope.
[190] _shoes_] _shoos_ F₃. _shooes_ The rest. _shows_ Ingleby conj.
_month, or_] Ff. _month or_ Q₂ Q₃. _month. Or_ Q₄ Q₅. _month: Or_ Q₆.
_or ere_] Qq Ff. _or e'er_ Rowe.
[191] _follow'd_] Rowe. _followed_ Qq Ff.
[192] _tears_] _in tears_ Anon. MS.
_tears:--why_] _teares, why_ Qq. _teares. Why_ Ff.
_even she,_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[193] _O God_] Qq. _O Heaven_ Ff.
_of reason_] _and reason_ Gifford conj.
[194] _with my_] Qq. _with mine_ Ff.
[195] _but_] om. Pope.
[196] _most unrighteous_] _moist and righteous_ Badham conj.
[197] _in_] Qq. _of_ Ff.
[198] _dexterity_] _celerity_ S. Walker conj.
[199] _break, my_] F₄. _breake my_ or _break my_ The rest.
Marcellus, and Bernardo.] Qq (Barnardo Q₆). Barnard, and Marcellus. Ff.
[200] SCENE IV. Pope.
_well_] om. Collier (Collier MS.)
[201] _I ... myself_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.
[202] _Horatio,--_] Theobald. _Horatio,_ Qq Ff. _Horatio?_ Pope.
_do_] om. Q (1676).
[203] _The ... ever._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[204] _Sir, ... you:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[205] _Marcellus?_] Capell. _Marcellus._ Qq Ff. _Marcellus!--_ Rowe.
[206] _lord?_] Edd. _lord._ Qq Ff. _lord--_ Rowe. _lord!_ Keightley.
[207] _you. Good even, sir._] _you, (good even sir)_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _you
(good even sir_) Q₅ Q₆. _you: good even sir._ Ff (_even,_ F₄). _you
good:--even, sir._ Jackson conj.
[To Ber.] Edd.
_even_] _morning_ Hanmer.
[208] _what_] om. F₄.
_in faith_] om. Q (1676).
[209] _good my_] _my good_ Q (1676).
[210] _hear_] _heare_ Qq. _have_ Ff.
[211] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
[212] _make_] _take_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_make it truster_] _be a witness_ Q (1676).
[213] _Elsinore_] Malone. _Elsonoure_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Elsenour_ F₁ F₂ Q₆
F₃. _Elsenoore_ F₄.
[214] _to drink deep_] (Q₁) Ff. _for to drinke_ Qq.
[215] _I prethee_] Qq. _I pray thee_ F₁. _I prythee_ F₂. _I prithee_ F₃
F₄.
_student_] _studient_ Q₂ Q₃.
[216] _see_] (Q₁) Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[217] _follow'd_] Q₆. _followed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _followeth_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[218] _Or ever I had_] Qq. _Ere I had ever_ Ff. _Ere ever I had_ (Q₁)
Collier. _E're I had_ Q (1676).
[219] _O where_] Ff. _Where_ Qq.
[220] _He ... He_] Ff. _a ... A_ Qq.
[221] _for_] _from_ Theobald (ed. 1), a misprint.
[222] _I shall_] _I should_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Eye shall_ Samwell apud Holt
conj.
[223] _Saw? who?_] Ff. _Saw, who?_ (Q₁) Qq. _Saw who?_ Q (1676) and
Singer (ed. 2). _Saw! whom?_ Johnson.
[224] _Season_] _Defer_ Q (1676).
_for_] _but_ Q (1676) and Theobald.
[225] _attent_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁ F₂. _attentive_ (Q₁) Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄.]
_may_] om. Pope.
[226] _marvel_] _wonder_ Q (1676).
_For God's love,_] _Pray_ Q (1676).
_God's_] _Gods_ Qq. _Heavens_ Ff.
[227] _vast_] (Q₁) Q₅ Q₆. _wast_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁. _waste_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _waist_
Malone.
[228] _Armed at point_] Qq (_poynt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄). _Armed to poynt_ (Q₁).
_Arm'd at all points_ Ff.
_cap-a-pe_] _Capapea_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃. _Cap apea_ Q₄ Q₅. _Cap a Pe_ Ff. _Cap
a pe_ Q₆.
[229] _stately by them: thrice_] _stately by them; thrice_ Qq.
_stately: By them thrice_ Ff.
[230] _fear-surprised_] Hyphened in Ff.
[231] _his_] _this_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_distill'd_] Q₅ Q₆ _distilled_ (Q₁). _distil'd_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _bestil'd_
F₁. _bestill'd_ F₂. _be still'd_ F₃ F₄. _bechill'd_ Collier (Collier
MS). _dissolv'd_ or _both thrill'd_ or _bethrill'd_ Bailey conj.
[232] _the act of_] _their_ Q (1676). _th' effect of_ Warburton.
_act of fear,_] _act: Of fear_ Becket conj.
[233] _In ... did;_] _They did impart in dreadful secresie,_ Q (1676).
[234] _Where, as_] Q₆. _Where as_ (Q₁). _Whereas_ The rest.
_deliver'd, both in_] _deliver'd both, in_ Long MS.
[235] _apparition_] _apparision_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[236] _you not_] _not you_ Players' reading.
[237] _made it_] _it made_ Q₆.
[238] _its_] Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _his_ (Q₁) Staunton. _it_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂.
[239] _like_] om. Q (1676).
[240] _honour'd_] _honourable_ F₂ F₄. _honorable_ F₃.
[241] _writ down in_] _then_ Q (1676).
[242] _of_] om. Q (1676).
[243] _Indeed, indeed_] (Q₁) Ff. _Indeede_ Qq. Seymour would read as
Qq, and end the lines _but ... to-night?_
[244] Mar. Ber.] All. (Q₁) Qq. Both. Ff.
[245] _My lord,_] om. Q (1676).
[246] _My ... up._] As two lines, the first ending _not,_ in Steevens
(1793).
[247] _face?_] _face._ Q₂ Q₃.
[248] _up_] _down_ Anon. ap. Hunter conj.
[249] _What, look'd he_] Pointed as in Ff. No stop in Qq. _How look'd
he,_ Staunton, from (Q₁).
[250] Three lines ending _like, ... haste ... longer,_ in Capell.
[251] _Very like, very like_] (Q₁) Ff. _Very like_ Qq.
[252] _moderate_] _modern_ Knight, ed. 1 (a misprint).
_a_] _an_ Q₆.
_hundred_] _hundreth_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[253] Mar. Ber.] Both. Qq. All. Ff.
[254] _grizzled? no?_] _grissl'd, no._ Qq. _grisly? no._ F₁. _grisly?_
F₂ F₃ F₄. _grizled?_ Q (1676). _grisl'd? no._ Warburton. _grizl'd? no?_
Capell.
[255] _no?_ Hor. _It was_] Hor. _No! It was_ Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag.
LX. 403).
[256] _as_] om. F₃ F₄.
[257] _I will_] Qq. _Ile_ or _I'll_ Ff, reading _Ile ... againe_ as one
line.
[258] _walk_] _wake_ F₁.
_warrant_] (Q₁). _warn't_ Qq. _warrant you_ Ff.
[259] _conceal'd_] _concealed_ F₃ F₄.
[260] _be tenable in_] _require_ Q (1676).
_tenable_] Qq. _tenible_ (Q₁). _treble_ F₁ F₄. _trebble_ F₂ F₃.
_tabled_ Nicholson conj. (withdrawn).]
_tenable in your_] _in your treble_ Bailey conj.
_tenable ... still_] _treble ... now_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn).
[261] _whatsoever_] _what somever_ Q₂ Q₃. _else shall hap_] _shall
befall_ Pope.
[262] _fare_] _farre_ Q₂ Q₃.
_you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.
[263] _eleven_] _a leaven_ Q₂ Q₃.
[264] _duty_] _duties_ (Q₁) Grant White.
_honour_] _homor_ Q₄.
[265] _loves_] Qq. _love_ Ff.
_farewell._] _so fare you well._ Seymour conj.
[Exeunt ... Hamlet.] Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. Q (1676). Exeunt Hor. Mar.
and Ber. Capell. Exeunt. (after line 252) (Q₁) Qq Ff.
[266] _spirit in arms!_] F₄. _spirit in armes?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _spirit (in
armes)_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _spirit in armes,_ Q₆. _spirit! in arms!_ Rann
(Whalley conj.)
[267] _foul_] _fonde_ Q₂ Q₃.
_rise, Though ... them, to_] _rise, (Tho' ... them) to_ Pope. _rise
Though ... them to_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _rise, Though ... them to_ Ff Q₆.
_rise, Though ... them from_ Q (1676) and Long MS.
[268] SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.
A room....] An apartment.... Pope. Ophelia.] Ff. Ophelia his Sister. Qq.
[269] _embark'd_] _inbarekt_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _imbarkt_ Q₅ Q₆. _imbark't_ F₁
F₂. _imbark'd_ F₃ F₄.
[270] _convoy is assistant,_] _convoy is assistant;_ Ff. _convay, in
assistant_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _convay, in assistant,_ Q₅. _convay in assistant,_
Q₆.
_sleep_] _slip_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[271] _favour_] Qq. _favours_ Ff.
[272] _youth of primy_] _youth, a prime of_ Q (1676).
_primy_] _prime_ Q₆.
[273] _Forward_] Qq F₃ F₄. _Froward_ F₁ F₂.
_sweet, not_] _tho' sweet, not_ Rowe. _sweet, but not_ Capell.
[274] _perfume and_] Qq. om. Ff.
_suppliance_] _soffiance_ Johnson conj.
_minute;_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _minute_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _minute?_ F₁. _minute:_ Q₆.
[275] _No more._] As in Qq. At end of line 9, in Ff. _but no more_
Collier MS. See note (II).
_so?_] Rowe. _so._ Qq Ff.
_no more_] _mo more_ Q₄.
[276] _crescent_] F₄. _cressant_ The rest.
[277] _bulk_] _bulkes_ Qq.
_this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. _the_ Hanmer.
[278] _and_] om. Q₄.
[279] _soil nor_] _foyle nor_ F₂ F₃. _foil nor_ F₄. _soil of_
Warburton. _soil, or_ So quoted by Heath.
[280] _will_] Qq. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _fear_ F₃ F₄.
_fear,_] _feare,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _feare_ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _fear_ F₃ F₄. _fear;_
Keightley.
[281] _weigh'd_] Ff. _wayd_ Q₂ Q₃. _waid_ Q₄ Q₅. _wai'd_ Q₆.
[282] _For ... birth:_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[283] _unvalued_] _inferior_ Q (1676).
[284] _Carve for_] _Crave for_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _Bestow_ Q (1676).
[285] _safety_] Q₄ Q₆. _safty_ Q₂ Q₃. _safetie_ Q₅. _sanctity_ Ff.
_sanity_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.)
_health_] _the health_ Warburton.
_this_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
_whole_] _weole_ F₁.
[286] _he is the_] _he's_ Pope.
[287] _particular act and place_] Qq. _peculiar sect and force_ Ff.
_peculiar act and place_ Pope.
[288] _weigh_] _way_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
_what_] _that_ F₃ F₄.
[289] _too_] _two_ F₂ F₃.
[290] _lose_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _loose_ Qq F₄.
[291] _unmaster'd_] _unmastred_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. _unmastered_ F₄.
[292] _keep you in_] Qq. _keepe within_ Ff.
[293] _galls_] _gaules_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Galls,_ F₁.
_infants_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁. _infant_ Q₄ Q₅ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄.
[294] _their_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
[295] _effect_] _effects_ Pope.
[296] _As watchman to_] _About_ Q (1676).
_watchman_] Q₂ Q₃. _watchmen_ The rest.
_my_] om. Q (1676).
[297] _steep_] _step_ Q₂.
to heaven] of heaven Q₆.
[298] _Whilst, like a_] _Whilst like a_ Ff. _Whiles a_ Qq. _Whilst, he
a_ Warburton. _While as a_ Seymour conj.
_puff'd and reckless_] om. Q (1676).
_reckless_] _careless_ Pope.
[299] _Himself ... treads_] _Thyself ... tread'st_ Seymour conj.
[300] _recks_] Pope, _reakes_ Qq F₂. _reaks_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _reck'st_
Seymour conj.
_his_] _thine_ Seymour conj.
_rede_] _reed_ Qq. _reade_ F₁ F₂. _read_ F₃ F₄. _tread_ Smyth conj. MS.
[301] SCENE VI. Pope.
Enter Polonius.] As in Capell. After _reed_ in Qq: after _not_ in Ff.
[302] [Kneeling to Polonius. Capell.
[303] _Aboard, aboard_] _Get aboard_ Pope.
[304] _stay'd_] _stayed_ Q₂ Q₃. _staied_ Q₄ Q₅.
_for. There; my_] Theobald, substantially. _for, there my_ (Q₁) Qq.
_for there: my_ Ff.
_thee_] (Q₁) Qq. _you_ Ff.
[Laying his hand on Laertes's head. Theobald.
[305] _Look_] Qq. _See_ Ff.
[306] _Those_] (Q₁) Qq. _The_ Ff.
[307] _them to_] (Q₁) Ff. _them unto_ Qq. _unto_ Seymour conj.
_hoops_] _hooks_ Pope.
[308] _dull_] _stale_ S. Walker conj.
[309] _new-hatch'd_] _new hatcht_ Qq. _unhatch't_ Ff.
_comrade_] Ff. _courage_ (Q₁) Qq. _court-ape_ Badham conj.
[310] _opposed_] (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _opposer_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[311] _thy ear_] _thy eare_ Qq. _thine eare_ or _thine ear_ Ff.
[312] _Are ... that._] See note (III).
[313] _lender be_] Ff. _lender boy_ Qq.
[314] _loan_] F₃ F₄. _Loane_ F₂. _lone_ F₁. _loue_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _love_
Q₆.
_loses_] Ff Q₆. _looses_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[315] _And_] Qq F₁. _A_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_dulls the edge_] Ff Q₆. _dulleth edge_ Q₂ Q₃. _dulleth the edge_ Q₄ Q₅.
[316] _night_] _light_ Warburton.]
_the day_] _to day_ Q₆.
[317] _thee!_] Pope. _thee._ Qq Ff.
[318] _do I_] _I do_ Q (1676).
[319] _invites_] Ff. _invests_ Qq.
[320] _to you_] om. Pope.
_in_] om. F₃.
[321] [Exit.] Exit Laertes. Qq. Exit Laer. Ff.
[322] _hath_] om. F₃ F₄.
[323] _Lord_] Qq. _L._ Ff.
[324] _you? give ... truth._] Q₆. _you give ... truth,_ Q₂ Q₃. _you
give ... truth._ Q₄ Q₅. _you, give ... truth?_ Ff.
[325] _pooh!_] _puh,_ Qq. _puh._ Ff.
[326] _Unsifted_] _Unsighted_ Becket conj.
[327] _I'll_] _Ile_ F₁ F₂. _I'le_ F₃ F₄. _I will_ Qq.
[328] _these_] Qq. _his_ Ff.
[329] _sterling_] Qq. _starling_ F₁ F₂ F₄. _startling_ F₃.
[330] _Running_] Dyce (Collier conj.) _Wrong_ Qq. _Roaming_ Ff.
_Wronging_ Pope. _Wringing_ Theobald (Warburton). _Ranging_ Theobald
conj. _Worrying_ Badham conj. _Urging_ or _Working_ Anon. conj. See
note (IV).
[331] _call it_] _call't_ Pope.
[332] _to his_] _to it in his_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[333] _my lord ... heaven_] As in Rowe. One line in Qq Ff.
[334] _almost ... holy_] Qq. _all the_ Ff. _almost all the_ Rowe.
[335] _springes_] (Q₁) Q₅ F₁ F₂ Q₆. _springs_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₃ F₄.
[336] _prodigal_] _prodigally_ Q (1676).
[337] _Lends_] (Q₁) Qq. _Gives_ Ff.
_daughter_] _oh my daughter_ Pope. _gentle daughter_ Capell. See note
(V).
[338] _both_] _birth_ Badham conj.
[339] _their_] _the_ Warburton.
[340] _take_] _take't_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_From this time_] Qq. _For this time daughter,_ Ff. _From this time
daughter,_ Long MS.
[341] _something_] Qq. _somewhat_ Ff.
_your_] _thy_ Johnson.
[342] _entreatments_] Ff Q₆. _intreatments_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _intraitments_
Warburton.
[343] _parley_] Ff Q₆. _parle_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[344] _tether_] Ff. _tider_ Q₂ Q₃. _teder_ Q₄ Q₅. _tedder_ Q₆.
_may he_] _he may_ Warburton.
[345] _that dye_] Q₆. _that die_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _the eye_ Ff. _that eye_
Grant White.
[346] _mere_] om. Seymour conj.
_implorators_] _imploratotors_ Q₂ Q₃. _implorers_ Pope.
[347] _bawds_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _bonds_ Qq Ff. _bans_ Becket
conj. _lauds_ Anon. conj.
[348] _beguile_] _beguide_ Q₂ Q₃.
[349] _slander_] _squander_ Collier (Collier MS.)
_moment_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _moments_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _moment's_ Pope. _moments'_
Collier (ed. 2).
[350] _come_] _and so come_ Seymour conj. _so now, come_ Collier MS.
_ways_] _wayes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ Q₆. _waies_ Q₅. _way_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[351] Oph. _I ... lord._] om. Seymour conj.
[352] SCENE IV.] Capell. om. Ff. SCENE III. Rowe. SCENE VII. Pope.
The platform.] The Platform before the Palace. Rowe.
and] om. Ff.
[353] _shrewdly_] F₁ Q₆. _shroudly_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _shrew'dly_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_it is very cold._] Qq. _is it very cold?_ F₁ F₂. _it is very cold?_ F₃
F₄.
[354] _a_] om. Qq.
_an_] om. F₃ F₄.
[355] _is_] _ha's_ F₃ F₄. _has not_ Rowe (ed. 2).
_struck_] F₄. _strooke_ Qq F₁ F₂. _strook_ F₃.
[356] _Indeed? I_] Capell. _Indeed;_ I Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Indeed I_ (Q₁) Ff.
_Indeed, I_ Q₆. _I_ Rowe.
_it then_] Qq. _then it_ Ff.
[357] [A flourish....] Malone, after Capell. A florish of trumpets and
2. peeces goes of. Qq (goe Q₆. off Q₄ Q₅ Q₆). A flourish of Trumpets
and Guns. Q (1676). Omitted in Ff. Noise of warlike Musick within. Rowe.
[358] _What ... my lord?_] Omitted in Steevens's reprint of Q₄.
[359] _wake_] _walke_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[360] _wassail_] _wassel_ (Q₁). _wassell_ Qq. _wassels_ Ff.
_up-spring reels_] _up-spring reeles_ (Q₁) Qq. _upspring reeles_ F₁ F₂.
_upspring reels_ F₃ F₄. _upstart reels_ Pope. _upsy freeze_ Badham conj.
[361] _drains_] _takes_ Q (1676).
[362] _bray out_] _proclaim_ Q (1676).
[363] _Is it_] _It is_ F₂.
[364] _is't:_] _is it; of an antique date:_ Seymour conj.
[365] _But_] Qq. _And_ Ff.
_native_] _a native_ Hammer (ed. 2).
[366] _This ... fault._] Put in the margin by Pope.
[367] _This ... scandal._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[368] _revel_] _reueale_ Q₂ Q₃. _reuelle_ Q₄. _reuell_ Q₅ Q₆.
[369] _revel east and west Makes_] Pointed as in Qq. _revell, east and
west: Makes_ Pope (ed. 1). _revell, east and west, Makes_ Pope (ed. 2).
_revel east and west, Makes_ Warburton.
[370] _traduced_] _tradust_ Q₂ Q₃.
_tax'd_] Pope. _taxed_ Qq.
[371] _clepe_] Q₆. _clip_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[372] _So, oft_] Theobald. _So oft_ Qq.
[373] _mole_] _mould_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[374] _the_] Pope. _their_ Qq.
[375] _livery_] _levity_ Becket conj.
_star_] _starre_ Qq. _scar_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald).
[376] _Their_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _His_ Qq.
[377] _the ... scandal_] Omitted by Pope.
[378] _the dram of eale ... of a doubt_] Q₂ Q₃. _the dram of ease ...
of a doubt_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _the dram of base ... of worth out_ Theobald.
_the dram of base ... oft eat out_ or _the dram of base ... soil with
doubt_ Heath conj. _the dram of ill ... of worth out_ Capell conj.
_the dram of base Doth eat the noble substance of worth out_ Id. conj.
_the dram of base ... oft adopt_ Holt conj. _the dram of base ... oft
work out_ Robertson and Davies conj. _the dram of ill ... of good out_
Jennens. _the dram of base ... of worth dout_ Malone. _the dram of
base ... often dout_ Steevens (1793). _the dram of base ... oft do out_
Id. conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of base ... of't corrupt_ Mason conj.
_the dram of doubt ... oft anneal_ Anon. conj. (1814). _the dream of
ease, The noble substance of a doubt,--doth all_ Becket conj. _the dram
of ale ... over dough or oft a-dough_ Jackson conj. _the dram of
ill ... often dout_ Caldecott. _the dram of bale ... often doubt_
Singer (ed. 1). _the dram of base ... of a doubt_ Singer (ed. 2). _the
dram of base ... oft adoubt_ Singer conj. _the dram of bale ... off and
out_ Delius. _the dram of base ... derogate_ Ingleby conj. _the dram of
lead ... of a ducat_ Id. conj. _the dram of ail ... of a doubt_ Nichols
conj. _the dram of lead ... of a pound_ Staunton conj. _the dram of
evil ... oft outdo_ Jervis conj. _the dram of base ... offer doubt_
Brae conj. (N. and Q.) _the dram of base Doth, all the noble substance
o'er, a doubt_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.) _the dram of eale Doth all the
noble, substance of a doubt_ Corson conj. _the dram of vile Turns ...
of a draught_ Leo conj. _the dram of evil ... out of doubt or the dram
of evil ... of a courtier_ Keightley conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of
base ... often draw_ Arrowsmith conj. _the dram of evil ... oft debase_
Dyce (ed. 2). _the dram of eale ... oft endoubt_ Nicholson conj. _the
dram of calce ... so adapt_ Bullock conj. _the dram of earth ... so
adapt_ Bullock conj. (withdrawn). _the dram of base ... overcloud_
Lloyd conj. _the dram of base ... often drown_ Taylor conj. MS. _the
dram of ease ... oft work out_ Smyth conj. MS. See note (VI).
_the dram of leaven ... of a dough_ Cartwright conj. _the dram of
evil ... oft weigh down_ Bailey conj.
[379] _To his_] _To its_ Steevens conj. _By his_ Malone conj. _By it's_
Anon. apud Rann conj.
Enter Ghost.] Enter Ghost armed as before. Collier MS.
[380] _it_] _where it_ Q (1676).
[381] Pause marked after this line in Collier MS.
[382] _intents_] Qq. _events_ Ff. _advent_ Warburton.
[383] _a questionable_] _unquestionable_ Becket conj.
[384] _father, royal Dane: O_] _father,--Royal Dane, O_ Anon. conj. (St
James's Chronicle, Oct. 15, 1761).
_O_] Qq. _Oh, oh_ Ff.
[385] _tell ... death_] _tell why Heried and canoniz'd in death, thy
bones_ Becket conj.
_tell Why thy_] _tell why Thy_ Lloyd conj.
[386] _canonized_] _canoniz'd_ Qq Ff.
_canonized ... death_] _bones hears'd in canonized earth_ Hanmer.
_canoniz'd bones, hearsed in earth_ Warburton.
[387] _cerements_] Qq. _cerments_ F₁. _cearments_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[388] _inurn'd_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _enurn'd_ F₁. _interr'd_ (Q₁) Qq. _immured_
Anon. conj.
[389] _Revisit'st_] F₄. _Revisitst_ F₂ F₃. _Revisits_ Qq F₁.
_thus the ... moon,_] _thus, the ... moon_ Becket conj.
[390] _we_] _us_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald).
[391] _horridly_] _horribly_ Theobald.
[392] _the reaches_] Qq. _thee; reaches_ Ff.
[393] [Ghost beckons Hamlet.] Ghost beckens Hamlet. Ff. Beckins. Q₂ Q₃.
Beckons. Q₄ Q₅. Beckens. Q₆.
[394] _waves_] (Q₁) Qq. _wafts_ Ff.
_to a more_] _off to a_ Johnson.
_more removed_] _remote_ Q (1676). See note (VII).
[395] [Holding Hamlet. Rowe.
[396] _I will_] Qq. _will I_ Ff.
[397] _should_] _shall_ Q (1676).
[398] _fee;_] _fee?_ F₃ F₄.
[399] _as_] _like_ (Q₁) Q₆.
[400] _toward_] _towards_ Q₄ Q₅.
_flood_] _floods_ Q (1676).
_lord_] om. Q₂.
[401] _summit_] Rowe. _somnet_ Qq. _sonnet_ Ff.
_cliff_] F₃ F₄. _cleefe_ Qq. _cliffe_ F₁ F₂.
[402] _beetles_] Ff. _bettels_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[403] _assume_] Qq. _assumes_ Ff.
[404] _deprive_] _deprave_ Hanmer (Warburton).
_your ... reason_] _you of your soveraign reason_ Collier MS. See note
(II).
_your ... reason_] _of sovereignty your_ Hunter conj.
[405] _draw_] _drive_ (Q₁) S. Walker conj.
_it:_] _it,_ Qq. _it?_ F₁. _it_. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[406] _The very ... beneath._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[407] _It ... thee._] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[408] _waves_] Qq. _wafts_ Ff.
[409] _off_] _of_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
_hands_] Qq. _hand_ Ff.
[410] Hor.] Mar. Theobald.
[They struggle. Collier MS. See note (II).
[411] _artery_] Q₆. _arture_ Q₂ Q₃. _artyre_ Q₄. _attire_ Q₅ F₄.
_artire_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
_this_] _his_ F₃ F₄.
[412] _As hardy_] _Hardy_ Capell.
_Nemean_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _Nemeon_ Q₂ Q₃. _Nemian_ F₁ F₂.
[Ghost beckons. Malone.
[413] _am I_] _I am_ Q (1676).
_call'd:_] _cald,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _call'd;_ Q₆. _cal'd?_ F₁. _call'd?_ F₂
F₃ F₄.
[Breaking from them. Rowe.
[414] _on_] _one_ Q₄ Q₅.
[Exeunt....] Ff. Exit ... Qq.
[415] _imagination_] _imagion_ Q₂ Q₃.
[416] _Heaven_] _Heaven's_ Collier MS. See note (II).
_direct it_] _discover it_ Q (1676). _detect it_ Farmer conj.
[417] SCENE V.] Capell. SCENE VIII. Pope. Scene continued in Ff.
Another part ...] Capell. A more remote part ... Theobald.
Enter....] Re-enter ... Pope.
[418] _Whither_] (Q₁) Q₆. _Whether_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Where_ Ff.
[419] _hour_] F₃ F₄. _houre_ Qq. _hower_ F₁. _honour_ F₂.
[420] _Pity ... unfold_] Prose in Q₄ Q₅.
[421] _thy_] _my_ Q₅.
[422] _hear._] _here,_ Q₄.
[423] _when_] _what_ Q (1676).
[424] _What?_] _Hear what?_ Keightley. _Revenge! what? how?_ Seymour
conj.
[425] _confined to fast_] _confined fast_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
_to fast in_] _to roast in_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _too fast in_
Warburton. _to lasting_ Singer, ed. 2 (Heath conj.) _to waste in_
Steevens conj. (withdrawn). _to fasting_ Jackson conj. _fast to_ Anon.
conj. ('Once a Week').
_And for_] _Tho' in_ Anon. MS.
[426] _that I am_] _being_ Seymour conj.
[427] _knotted_] (Q₁) Qq. _knotty_ Ff.
[428] _an end_] _on end_ (Q₁) Pope. _an-end_ Boswell.
[429] _fretful_] F₄. _fretfull_ (Q₁) F₁ F₂ F₃. _fearefull_ Qq.
_porpentine_] _porcupine_ Q (1676).
[430] _List, list_] Qq. _list Hamlet_ Ff (_Hamle_ F₂).
[431] _love--_] Rowe. _love._ Qq Ff.
[432] _God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.
[433] _Murder!_] Q₆. _Murther_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Murther?_ Ff.
[434] _Murder most_] _Most_ Seymour conj.
_in_] _at_ Long MS.
[435] _Haste me_] Rowe. _Hast me_ Qq. _Hast, hast me_ F₁. _Haste, haste
me_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_Haste ... swift_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_know't_] Qq. _know it_ Ff. _know_ Pope.
_I_] om. F₁.
[436] _meditation_] _mediation_ Q₆.
[437] _sweep_] _flye_ Q (1676). _swoop_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[438] _shouldst_] _shouldest_ Q₄ Q₅.
[439] _shouldst ... Wouldst_] _wouldst ... Shouldst_ Anon. conj. (Misc.
Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
[440] _roots_] Q₅ Q₆. _rootes_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _rots_ Ff.
_itself ... wharf,_] _on Lethe's wharf: itself in ease,_--Becket conj.
_Lethe_] _Lethe's_ Q (1676) and Rowe.
[441] _'Tis_] Q₆. _Tis_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _It's_ Ff.
_my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
_orchard_] _garden_ Q (1676).
[442] _so_] om. Pope.
[443] _know, thou_] F₄. _knowe thou_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ F₁ F₂ Q₅ F₃. _know thou,_
Q₆.
[444] _life_] _heart_ Q (1676).
[445] _O my ... uncle!_] As in Dyce (S. Walker conj.) One line in Qq Ff.
[446] _My_] _my_ Qq. _mine_ Ff.
_uncle!_] Q₆. _uncle?_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _uncle:_ Q₄. _uncle._ Q₅.
[447] _Ay,_] _Ay, Ay_ S. Walker conj., ending line 41 _Ay._
_Ay, ... that adulterate_] _Incestuous, adulterate_ Seymour conj.
[448] _witchcraft_] _witchraft_ F₂.
_wit_] Pope. _wits_ Qq Ff.
_with_] Qq. _hath_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _and_ F₄.
_gifts,--_] _gifts,_ Qq F₃. _guifts._ F₁. _gifts._ F₂. _gifts_ F₄.
[449] _wit_] _wits_ Q₆.
[450] _to his_] Qq F₃ F₄. _to to this_ F₁. _to this_ F₂.
[451] _seeming-virtuous_] Hyphen inserted by Theobald.
[452] _a_] Ff Q₆. om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[453] _marriage; and to_] _marriage, to_ Ingleby conj.
[454] _To those ... moved,_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.
[455] _mine!_] _mine, surpasses, almost, thinking._ Seymour conj.
[456] _lust,_] (Q₁) Ff. _but_ Qq.
_angel_] F₄. _angell_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _angle_ Qq.
[457] _Will ... garbage._] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff.
[458] _sate_] F₁ F₂. _sort_ Qq. _seat_ F₃ F₄.
[459] _prey_] _pray_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
_on_] _in_ F₃ F₄.
[460] _scent_] _sent_ Q₂ Q₃ F₁ Q₆.
_morning_] Qq. _mornings_ Ff.
[461] _within my orchard_] _in my garden_ Q (1676).
_my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
[462] _of_] Qq. _in_ (Q₁) Ff.
[463] _secure_] _secret_ Johnson.
_stole_] _to me stole_ Q (1676).
[464] _hebenon_] Ff. _hebona_ (Q₁) Qq. _hebon_ or _hemlock_ Elze conj.
_vial_] _viall_ Qq. _violl_ F₁ F₂. _viol_ F₃ F₄.
[465] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
[466] _effect Holds_] _effects Hold_ Q (1676).
[467] _alleys_] Hanmer. _allies_ (Q₁) Qq Ff.
[468] _vigour_] _rigour_ Staunton conj.
_posset_] Ff. _possesse_ Qq.
[469] _eager_] (Q₁) Qq. _Aygre_ Ff.
[470] _bark'd_] _barckt_ Q₂ Q₃. _barkt_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _bak'd_ Ff. _barked_
(Q₁).
[471] _of queen_] _of queene_ Qq. _and queene_ Ff (_queen_ F₃ F₄).
_dispatch'd_] _dismatch'd_ Becket conj. _despoil'd_ Collier MS.
[472] _blossoms_] _blossom_ Dyce conj.
[473] _Unhousel'd_] Theobald. _Unhuzled_ Q₂ Q₃. _Unnuzled_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_Unhouzzled_ Ff.
_disappointed_] _unanointed_ Pope. _unappointed_ Theobald.
_unanel'd_] Pope. _unanueld_ Q₂ Q₃. _un-anneld_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _unnaneld_
Ff. _unaneal'd_ Theobald. _unanoil'd_ Jennens. _and unknell'd_ Anon.
conj. (Gent. Mag. XLVI. 267). _unassoiled_ Boucher conj.
[474] _With all_] _Withall_ Q₂ Q₃.
[475] See note (VIII).
[476] _howsoever_] Ff. _howsomever_ Qq.
_pursuest_] Ff Q₆. _pursues_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[477] _Taint_] _Tain't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
_contrive_] _design_ Q (1676).
[478] _matin_] _morning_ Q (1676). _matins_ so quoted in Drake's
_Shakespeare and his Times_, II. 414.
[479] _Adieu, adieu, adieu!_] _Adiew, adiew, adiew,_ Qq (_Adieu_ Q₆).
_Adue, adue, Hamlet:_ F₁ F₂. _Adieu, adieu, Hamlet:_ F₃ F₄. _Farewel_,
Q (1676).
[Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.
[480] _O fie! Hold, hold, my_] _Oh hold, my_ Pope. _Hold, hold, my_
Capell. _O fie! Hold,_ Collier MS.
_Hold, hold, my_] _hold, hold my_ Q₂ Q₃. _hold, my_ Q₄. _hold my_ Q₅ Ff
Q₆.
[481] _stiffly_] Ff. _swiftly_ Qq. _strongly_ Q (1676).
[482] _thee!_] Q₆. _thee,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _thee?_ Ff.
[483] _while_] Ff. _whiles_ Qq.
[484] _saws_] _sawe_ Q₄. _saw_ Q₅ Q₆. _registers_ Q (1676).
_all pressures_] _and pressures_ Q (1676).
[485] _yes_] Qq. _yes, yes_ Ff.
[486] _pernicious_] _prenicious_ Q₄. _pernicious and perfidious_
Collier (Collier MS.)
[487] _My tables,--_] Pope. (_My tables_) (Q₁). _My tables,_ Qq. _My
Tables, my Tables;_ Ff.
_set it_] _set_ Q₆.
[488] _down, ... villain; ... me.' ... sworn't._] _down.-- ...
villain!... me.'_ [Writing _... sworn it._ [Having kissed the tables.
Brae conj.
[489] _I'm_] Ff. _I am_ Qq.
[Writing.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Opposite line 111, Keightley.
[490] _It ... sworn't._] Two lines in Qq. One in Ff. Capell puts _It
is_ in a separate line.
[491] _It is_] _Its--_ Jackson conj.
[492] _I have sworn't._] _I've sworn it--_ Pope.
[493] SCENE IX. Pope.
Hor. Mar. [Within] Ff. Hora. Qq. See note (IX).
[494] _Heaven_] Ff. _Heavens_ (Q₁) Qq.
[495] Ham.] Qq. Mar. Ff. Mar. [within. Knight.
[496] Mar.] Qq. Hor. Ff.
[497] _bird,_] Ff. _and_ Qq. _boy,_ (Q₁) Pope.
[498] Hor. _What news, my lord?_] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[499] Ham.] Hora. Q₄ Q₅.
[500] _you will_] Qq. _you'l_ F₁. _you'll_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[501] _it?_] (Q₁) Ff Q₆. _it,_ The rest.
[502] _secret?_] Ff. _secret._ Qq. _secret--_ Theobald.
Hor. Mar.] Booth. Q₂ Q₃. Both. Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆.
_my lord._] (Q₁) Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[503] _There's ... Denmark_] One line in (Q₁) Ff. Two in Qq.
_ne'er_] F₂. _nere_ F₁. _ne're_ F₃ F₄. _never_ Qq.
[504] _Denmark But_] _Denmark--But_ Seymour conj.
[505] _But_] _Bate_ Becket conj.
[506] _There ... this._] As in Qq. Prose in Ff.
[507] _i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _in the_ Qq.
[508] _desire_] Qq. _desires_ (Q₁) Ff.
[509] _hath_] Qq. _ha's_ F₁. _has_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[510] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
[511] _Look you, I'll_] Ff. _I will_ Qq. _Look you, I will_ Capell.
[512] _whirling_] Theobald. _wherling_ (Q₁) _whurling_ Qq. _hurling_
Ff. _windy_ Q (1676). _hurting_ Collier MS. See note (II).
[513] _I'm_] Ff. _I am_ Qq.
_offend_] _offended_ F₃ F₄.
[514] _Yes, faith,_] _Yes,_ Pope. _'Faith,_ Capell.
[515] _Horatio_] (Q₁) Qq. _my Lord_ Ff.
[516] _too. Touching_] _too: touching_ Q₆. _too, touching_ (Q₁) Ff.
_to, touching_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_here,_] _heere,_ or _here,_ Qq. _heere:_ or _here:_ Ff.
[517] _O'ermaster't_] _Oremastret_ Q₂ Q₃. _O'er-master_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[518] _we will_] om. (Q₁) Pope. Mar. _We will_ Collier MS. See note
(II).
[519] Hor. Mar.] Booth. Q₂ Q₃. Both. The rest.
[520] _In faith, ... I._] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[521] _We have_] _We've_ Pope.
[522] _Indeed ... indeed._] _In deed ... in deed_ Staunton.
[523] Ghost. [Beneath] _Swear._] Capell. Ghost cries under the Stage.
Ghost. _Sweare._ Qq. Gho. _Sweare._ Ghost cries under the Stage. Ff.
[524] _Ah, ha, ... cellarage_] Arranged as in Qq. Prose in Ff.
[525] _Ah_] Ff. _Ha_ Qq.
_so?_] Q₆. _so,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _so._ Ff.
[526] _on: you hear_] _one you here_ F₁.
[527] _the oath_] _my oath_ F₃ F₄.
[528] _seen,_] _seene_ Q₂ Q₃. _seene,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _seene._ F₁ F₂.
_seen._ F₃ F₄.
[529] [Beneath] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[530] _Hic_] _Hie_ Q₄ Q₅.
_ubique?_] Ff. _ubique,_ Qq.
_our_] Qq. _for_ Ff.
[531] See note (X).
[532] _this that_] _this which_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[533] _Swear._] (Q₁) Ff. _Sweare by his sword._ Qq.
[534] _canst_] _canst thou_ Q₆.
_earth_] (Q₁) Qq. _ground_ Ff.
[535] _good friends_] om. Seymour conj.]
_friends_] Qq F₁. _friend_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[536] _give_] _bid_ F₃ F₄.
[537] _your_] (Q₁) Qq. _our_ Ff.
[538] _Than ... come;_] As in Hanmer. One line in Qq Ff.
[539] _But come; Here_] _But_ Seymour conj.
[540] _Here_] _Swear_ Pope (ed. 2). _swear here_ Keightley, reading
_But ... mercy!_ as one line.
[541] _How ... on_] Put in parentheses in Pope. (ed. 1).
[542] _How ... note_] Put in parentheses in Qq.
[543] _soe'er_] _so ere_ Ff Q₆. _so mere_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[544] _As ... on_] Put in parentheses in Ff.
[545] _meet_] _fit_ So quoted by Theobald ('Shakespeare Restored').
[546] _times_] (Q₁) Qq. _time_ Ff.
[547] _this head-shake_] Theobald. _this head shake_ (Q₁) Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_thus, head shake_ Ff. _head thus shak't_ Q₆.
[548] _Or_] _Nor_ Malone conj.
[549] _Well, well,_] Qq. _well,_ Ff.
[550] _an if ... an if_] Hanmer. _and if ... and if_ Qq Ff. _and if ...
or if_ Q (1676). _an ... those; An if_ Seymour conj.
[551] _they_] (Q₁) Qq. _there_ Ff.
[552] _giving_] _givings_ Warburton.
_out, to note_] Steevens, 1793. (Malone conj.) _out, to note)_ Qq. _out
to note,_ Ff. _out to note_ Malone.
_to note_] _denote_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _to-note_ Porson conj. MS.
[553] _this ... Swear._] _this ... doe: So ... you: Sweare._ Ff.
_this doe sweare, So ... you._ Qq. _this you must swear. So ... you._
Q (1676). _this do ye swear. So ... you. Swear._ Pope. _This do you
swear, So ... you!_ Capell. _This not to do, swear; So ... you!_
Boswell.
[554] _Rest, rest,_] _Rest,_ Seymour conj.
[They swear.] Edd. (Globe ed.) om. Qq Ff.
[555] _I do_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _do I_ Theobald.
[556] _friending_] _friendship_ Q (1676).
[557] _God ... lack._] _Shall never fail,_ Q (1676).
_Let us go in_] _Let's go_ Anon. conj.
_together_] om. Hanmer.
[558] _pray._] Rowe. _pray,_ Qq Ff.
[559] _set_] see F₃ F₄.
ACT II.
SCENE I. _A room in Polonius's house._
_Enter_ POLONIUS _and_ REYNALDO.[560]
_Pol._ Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.[561][562]
_Rey._ I will, my lord.
_Pol._ You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,[562][563]
Before you visit him, to make inquire[564]
Of his behaviour.
_Rey._ My lord, I did intend it. 5
_Pol._ Marry, well said, very well said. Look you, sir,[565]
Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris,[566]
And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
What company, at what expense, and finding[567]
By this encompassment and drift of question 10
That they do know my son, come you more nearer[568]
Than your particular demands will touch it:[568]
Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him,
As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,[569]
And in part him:' do you mark this, Reynaldo?[562] 15
_Rey._ Ay, very well, my lord.
_Pol._ 'And in part him; but,' you may say, 'not well:
But if't be he I mean, he's very wild,[570]
Addicted so and so;' and there put on him
What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank 20
As may dishonour him; take heed of that;
But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips
As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty.
_Rey._ As gaming, my lord.
_Pol._ Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,[571][572] 25
Drabbing: you may go so far.[571]
_Rey._ My lord, that would dishonour him.
_Pol._ Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge.[573]
You must not put another scandal on him,[574]
That he is open to incontinency;[575] 30
That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,[576][577]
Of general assault.[576]
_Rey._ But, my good lord,--[578] 35
_Pol._ Wherefore should you do this?
_Rey._ Ay, my lord,[579][580]
I would know that.[579]
_Pol._ Marry, sir, here's my drift,
And I believe it is a fetch of warrant:[581]
You laying these slight sullies on my son,[582]
As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working,[583] 40
Mark you,[584][585]
Your party in converse, him you would sound,[584][586]
Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes[587]
The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured[588]
He closes with you in this consequence;[589] 45
'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'[590]
According to the phrase or the addition[591]
Of man and country.
_Rey._ Very good, my lord.
_Pol._ And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I[592][593]
about to say? By the mass, I was about to say something:[592][594] 50
where did I leave?[592]
_Rey._ At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'[595]
and 'gentleman.'[595]
_Pol._ At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;[596]
He closes with you thus: 'I know the gentleman;[597] 55
I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,[598]
Or then, or then, with such, or such, and, as you say,[599]
There was a' gaming, there o'ertook in's rouse,[600]
There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,[601]
'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'[602] 60
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.[603]
See you now;[603]
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:[604]
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,[605] 65
By indirections find directions out:[606]
So, by my former lecture and advice,[607]
Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
_Rey._ My lord, I have.
_Pol._ God be wi' ye; fare ye well.[608]
_Rey._ Good my lord![609] 70
_Pol._ Observe his inclination in yourself.[610]
_Rey._ I shall, my lord.
_Pol._ And let him ply his music.
_Rey._ Well, my lord.
_Pol._ Farewell! [_Exit Reynaldo._
_Enter_ OPHELIA.[611]
How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?
_Oph._ O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted![612] 75
_Pol._ With what, i' the name of God?[613]
_Oph._ My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,[614]
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced,[615]
No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd,[616]
Ungarter'd and down-gyved to his ancle;[617] 80
Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
And with a look so piteous in purport
As if he had been loosed out of hell
To speak of horrors, he comes before me.[618]
_Pol._ Mad for thy love?
_Oph._ My lord, I do not know,[619] 85
But truly I do fear it.[619]
_Pol._ What said he?
_Oph._ He took me by the wrist and held me hard;[620]
Then goes he to the length of all his arm,
And with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
He falls to such perusal of my face 90
As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;[621]
At last, a little shaking of mine arm,[622]
And thrice his head thus waving up and down,
He raised a sigh so piteous and profound[623]
As it did seem to shatter all his bulk[624] 95
And end his being: that done, he lets me go:[625]
And with his head over his shoulder turn'd,[626]
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes;
For out o' doors he went without their helps,[627]
And to the last bended their light on me. 100
_Pol._ Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.[628]
This is the very ecstasy of love;
Whose violent property fordoes itself[629]
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven[630] 105
That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.
What, have you given him any hard words of late?
_Oph._ No, my good lord, but, as you did command,
I did repel his letters and denied
His access to me.
_Pol._ That hath made him mad. 110
I am sorry that with better heed and judgement[631]
I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle[632]
And meant to wreck thee; but beshrew my jealousy![633]
By heaven, it is as proper to our age[634]
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions 115
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:[635]
This must be known; which, being kept close, might move[636]
More grief to hide than hate to utter love.[637]
Come. [_Exeunt._[638] 120
SCENE II. _A room in the castle._
_Flourish. Enter_ KING, QUEEN, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN,
_and_ Attendants.[639]
_King._ Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern![640][641]
Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending. Something have you heard[642]
Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,[643] 5
Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man[644]
Resembles that it was. What it should be,
More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
So much from th' understanding of himself,
I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,[645] 10
That, being of so young days brought up with him
And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and haviour,[646]
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Some little time: so by your companies
To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather 15
So much as from occasion you may glean,[647]
Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,[648]
That open'd lies within our remedy.[649]
_Queen._ Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
And sure I am two men there are not living[650] 20
To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
To show us so much gentry and good will[651]
As to expend your time with us awhile[652]
For the supply and profit of our hope,
Your visitation shall receive such thanks[653] 25
As fits a king's remembrance.
_Ros._ Both your majesties
Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,[654]
Put your dread pleasures more into command
Than to entreaty.
_Guil._ But we both obey,[655]
And here give up ourselves, in the full bent 30
To lay our service freely at your feet,[656]
To be commanded.[657]
_King._ Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.[640][641]
_Queen._ Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:[640][641]
And I beseech you instantly to visit 35
My too much changed son. Go, some of you,[658]
And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.[659]
_Guil._ Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!
_Queen._ Ay, amen!
[_Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants._[660]
_Enter_ POLONIUS.
_Pol._ The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord, 40
Are joyfully return'd.
_King._ Thou still hast been the father of good news.
_Pol._ Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,[661]
I hold my duty as I hold my soul,
Both to my God and to my gracious king:[662] 45
And I do think, or else this brain of mine
Hunts not the trail of policy so sure[663]
As it hath used to do, that I have found[664]
The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
_King._ O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.[665] 50
_Pol._ Give first admittance to the ambassadors;
My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.[666]
_King._ Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
[_Exit Polonius._[667]
He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found[668]
The head and source of all your son's distemper. 55
_Queen._ I doubt it is no other but the main;
His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.[669]
_King._ Well, we shall sift him.
_Re-enter_ POLONIUS, _with_ VOLTIMAND _and_ CORNELIUS.
Welcome, my good friends![670]
Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?[671]
_Volt._ Most fair return of greetings and desires. 60
Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
His nephew's levies, which to him appear'd[672]
To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,[673]
But better look'd into, he truly found
It was against your highness: whereat grieved, 65
That so his sickness, age and impotence
Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests
On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys,
Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine
Makes vow before his uncle never more 70
To give the assay of arms against your majesty.
Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee[674]
And his commission to employ those soldiers,
So levied as before, against the Polack:[673] 75
With an entreaty, herein further shown, [_Giving a paper._[675]
That it might please you to give quiet pass
Through your dominions for this enterprise,[676]
On such regards of safety and allowance
As therein are set down.[677]
_King._ It likes us well, 80
And at our more consider'd time we'll read,[678]
Answer, and think upon this business.[679]
Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:
Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:[680]
Most welcome home! [_Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius._
_Pol._ This business is well ended.[681] 85
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit[682] 90
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,[683]
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,[684]
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?[685]
But let that go.
_Queen._ More matter, with less art. 95
_Pol._ Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,[686]
And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;[687]
But farewell it, for I will use no art.[688]
Mad let us grant him then: and now remains 100
That we find out the cause of this effect,[689]
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause:
Thus it remains and the remainder thus.[690][691]
Perpend.[690][692] 105
I have a daughter,--have while she is mine,--[693]
Who in her duty and obedience, mark,
Hath given me this: now gather and surmise. [_Reads._[694]
'To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified
Ophelia,'--[695]
That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile[696] 110
phrase: but you shall hear. Thus: [_Reads._[697][698]
'In her excellent white bosom, these,' &c.[697][699]
_Queen._ Came this from Hamlet to her?
_Pol._ Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful. [_Reads._[700]
'Doubt thou the stars are fire; 115
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not
art to reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most 120
best, believe it. Adieu.
'Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this
machine is to him, HAMLET.'[701]
This in obedience hath my daughter shown me;[702]
And more above, hath his solicitings,[703] 125
As they fell out by time, by means and place,
All given to mine ear.
_King._ But how hath she[704]
Received his love?[704]
_Pol._ What do you think of me?
_King._ As of a man faithful and honourable.
_Pol._ I would fain prove so. But what might you think,[705] 130
When I had seen this hot love on the wing,--[706]
As I perceived it, I must tell you that,
Before my daughter told me,--what might you,
Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,[707]
If I had play'd the desk or table-book,[708] 135
Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,[709]
Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;
What might you think? No, I went round to work,
And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:[710]
'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;[711] 140
This must not be:' and then I prescripts gave her,[712]
That she should lock herself from his resort,[713]
Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;[714]
And he repulsed, a short tale to make,[714][715] 145
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,[716]
Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,[717][718]
Thence to a lightness, and by this declension[718][719]
Into the madness wherein now he raves[720]
And all we mourn for.[721] 150
_King._ Do you think this?
_Queen._ It may be, very like.[722]
_Pol._ Hath there been such a time, I'ld fain know that,[723]
That I have positively said ''tis so,'
When it proved otherwise?
_King._ Not that I know.
_Pol._ [_Pointing to his head and shoulder_] Take this
from this, if this be otherwise:[724] 155
If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre.
_King._ How may we try it further?[725]
_Pol._ You know, sometimes he walks four hours together[726][727]
Here in the lobby.[726]
_Queen._ So he does, indeed.[728] 160
_Pol._ At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;[729][730]
Mark the encounter: if he love her not,[729]
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state, 165
But keep a farm and carters.[731]
_King._ We will try it.
_Queen._ But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.[732]
_Pol._ Away, I do beseech you, both away:[733]
I'll board him presently.
[_Exeunt King, Queen, and Attendants._
_Enter_ HAMLET, _reading_.[734]
O, give me leave: how does my good Lord Hamlet?[735] 170
_Ham._ Well, God-a-mercy.
_Pol._ Do you know me, my lord?
_Ham._ Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.[736]
_Pol._ Not I, my lord.
_Ham._ Then I would you were so honest a man. 175
_Pol._ Honest, my lord![737]
_Ham._ Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to[738]
be one man picked out of ten thousand.[738][739]
_Pol._ That's very true, my lord.
_Ham._ For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,[740] 180
being a god kissing carrion--Have you a daughter?[741]
_Pol._ I have, my lord.
_Ham._ Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a
blessing; but as your daughter may conceive,--friend, look[742]
to't. 185
_Pol._ [_Aside_] How say you by that? Still harping on[743]
my daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I was a[743][744][745]
fishmonger: he is far gone: and truly in my youth I[743][745][746][747]
suffered much extremity for love; very near this. I'll[743][746][748]
speak to him again. What do you read, my lord?[743][746][749] 190
_Ham._ Words, words, words.
_Pol._ What is the matter, my lord?[749]
_Ham._ Between who?[750]
_Pol._ I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.[751]
_Ham._ Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that[752] 195
old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled,
their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and[753]
that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most[754]
weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and
potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus 200
set down; for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if like a[755]
crab you could go backward.
_Pol._ [_Aside_] Though this be madness, yet there is[756][757][758]
method in't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?[757]
_Ham._ Into my grave.[759] 205
_Pol._ Indeed, that's out of the air. [_Aside_] How pregnant[760][761]
sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness[760][762]
hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously[760][763][764]
be delivered of. I will leave him, and suddenly contrive[760][764][765][766]
the means of meeting between him and my daughter. My[760][766][767] 210
honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.[760][767]
_Ham._ You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I[768]
will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my[769][770]
life, except my life.[770]
_Pol._ Fare you well, my lord. 215
_Ham._ These tedious old fools!
_Enter_ ROSENCRANTZ _and_ GUILDENSTERN.[771]
_Pol._ You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.[772]
_Ros._ [_To Polonius_] God save you, sir! [_Exit Polonius._[773]
_Guil._ My honoured lord![774]
_Ros._ My most dear lord! 220
_Ham._ My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern?[775]
Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?[776]
_Ros._ As the indifferent children of the earth.
_Guil._ Happy, in that we are not over-happy;[777]
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.[777][778] 225
_Ham._ Nor the soles of her shoe?[779]
_Ros._ Neither, my lord.
_Ham._ Then you live about her waist, or in the middle[780]
of her favours?[781]
_Guil._ Faith, her privates we.[782] 230
_Ham._ In the secret parts of Fortune? O, most true;
she is a strumpet. What's the news?[783]
_Ros._ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.[784]
_Ham._ Then is doomsday near: but your news is not[785]
true. Let me question more in particular: what have you,[786] 235
my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she[786]
sends you to prison hither?[786]
_Guil._ Prison, my lord![786]
_Ham._ Denmark's a prison.[786]
_Ros._ Then is the world one.[786] 240
_Ham._ A goodly one; in which there are many confines,[786]
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.[786][787]
_Ros._ We think not so, my lord.[786]
_Ham._ Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing[786][788]
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a[786][788] 245
prison.[786]
_Ros._ Why, then your ambition makes it one; 'tis too[786]
narrow for your mind.[786]
_Ham._ O God, I could be bounded in a nut-shell and[786]
count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I[786] 250
have bad dreams.[786][789]
_Guil._ Which dreams indeed are ambition; for the very[786]
substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.[786]
_Ham._ A dream itself is but a shadow.[786]
_Ros._ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a[786] 255
quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.[786]
_Ham._ Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs[786]
and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to[786]
the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.[786][790]
_Ros. Guil._ We'll wait upon you.[786][791] 260
_Ham._ No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest[786]
of my servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I[786]
am most dreadfully attended. But, in the beaten way of[786]
friendship, what make you at Elsinore?[792][793]
_Ros._ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. 265
_Ham._ Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but[794]
I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear
a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own[795]
inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me:[796]
come, come; nay, speak. 270
_Guil._ What should we say, my lord?
_Ham._ Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were[797]
sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks,[798]
which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: I
know the good king and queen have sent for you. 275
_Ros._ To what end, my lord?
_Ham._ That you must teach me. But let me conjure you,
by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our[799]
youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by[800]
what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be[801] 280
even and direct with me, whether you were sent for, or no.[802]
_Ros._ [_Aside to Guil._] What say you?[803]
_Ham._ [_Aside_] Nay then, I have an eye of you.--If you[804][805]
love me, hold not off.[804]
_Guil._ My lord, we were sent for. 285
_Ham._ I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent
your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen[806][807]
moult no feather. I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost[807][808]
all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and indeed[809]
it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly[810] 290
frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most
excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging[811]
firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,[812]
it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent[813]
congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man![814] 295
how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and[815][816]
moving how express and admirable! in action how like an[816]
angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the[816]
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this
quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman[817] 300
neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.[818]
_Ros._ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
_Ham._ Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man[819]
delights not me'?
_Ros._ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what 305
lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you:[820]
we coted them on the way; and hither are they coming, to[821]
offer you service.
_Ham._ He that plays the king shall be welcome; his
majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight[822] 310
shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis;[823]
the humourous man shall end his part in peace; the clown[824]
shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled o' the sere,[824][825]
and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse[826]
shall halt for't. What players are they? 315
_Ros._ Even those you were wont to take such delight[827]
in, the tragedians of the city.[828]
_Ham._ How chances it they travel? their residence,[829]
both in reputation and profit, was better both ways.[830]
_Ros._ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the[831][832] 320
late innovation.[831][833]
_Ham._ Do they hold the same estimation they did when[834]
I was in the city? are they so followed?
_Ros._ No, indeed, are they not.[835]
_Ham._ How comes it? do they grow rusty?[836] 325
_Ros._ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace:[836]
but there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry[836][837]
out on the top of question and are most tyranically clapped[836][838]
for't: these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common[836][839]
stages--so they call them--that many wearing rapiers[836][840] 330
are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.[836]
_Ham._ What, are they children? who maintains 'em?[836][841]
how are they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no[836]
longer than they can sing? will they not say afterwards, if[836]
they should grow themselves to common players,--as it is[836][842] 335
most like, if their means are no better,--their writers do them[836][843]
wrong, to make them exclaim against their own succession?[836][844]
_Ros._ Faith, there has been much to do on both sides,[836]
and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy:[836]
there was for a while no money bid for argument unless[836] 340
the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question.[836]
_Ham._ Is't possible?[836]
_Guil._ O, there has been much throwing about of brains.[836]
_Ham._ Do the boys carry it away?[836]
_Ros._ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.[836][845] 345
_Ham._ It is not very strange; for my uncle is king of[846]
Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while[847]
my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats[848]
a-piece, for his picture in little. 'Sblood, there is something[849]
in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.[850] 350
[_Flourish of trumpets within._
_Guil._ There are the players.[851]
_Ham._ Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your[793]
hands, come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion[852]
and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb, lest[853][854]
my extent to the players, which, I tell you, must show[854][855] 355
fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment[856]
than yours. You are welcome: but my uncle-father and
aunt-mother are deceived.
_Guil._ In what, my dear lord?
_Ham._ I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind 360
is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.[857]
_Enter_ POLONIUS.
_Pol._ Well be with you, gentlemen![858]
_Ham._ Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each[859]
ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out[860]
of his swaddling clouts.[861] 365
_Ros._ Happily he's the second time come to them; for[862]
they say an old man is twice a child.
_Ham._ I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the[863]
players; mark it. You say right, sir: o'Monday morning;[864]
'twas so, indeed.[865] 370
_Pol._ My lord, I have news to tell you.
_Ham._ My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius[866]
was an actor in Rome,--[867]
_Pol._ The actors are come hither, my lord.
_Ham._ Buz, buz! 375
_Pol._ Upon my honour,--[868]
_Ham._ Then came each actor on his ass,--[869]
_Pol._ The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,[870]
tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,[870][871] 380
scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too[872]
heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the[873][874][875]
liberty these are the only men.[873][875]
_Ham._ O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure[876][877]
hadst thou! 385
_Pol._ What a treasure had he, my lord?[878]
_Ham._ Why,[879]
'One fair daughter, and no more,[879]
The which he loved passing well.'[879]
_Pol._ [_Aside_] Still on my daughter.[880] 390
_Ham._ Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?
_Pol._ If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter[881][882]
that I love passing well.[881]
_Ham._ Nay, that follows not.[881]
_Pol._ What follows, then, my lord? 395
_Ham._ Why,[883]
'As by lot, God wot,'[883]
and then, you know,[884]
'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--[884]
the first row of the pious chanson will show you more;[885] 400
for look, where my abridgement comes.[886]
_Enter four or five_ Players.
You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad to see[887]
thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old friend! Why[888][889]
thy face is valanced since I saw thee last; comest thou to[889][890]
beard me in Denmark? What, my young lady and mistress! 405
By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than[891]
when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Pray[892]
God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not
cracked within the ring. Masters, you are all welcome.
We'll e'en to 't like French falconers, fly at any thing we[893] 410
see: we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste of
your quality; come, a passionate speech.
_First Play._ What speech, my good lord?[894][895]
_Ham._ I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was
never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, 415
pleased not the million; 'twas caviare to the general:[896]
but it was--as I received it, and others, whose judgements[897]
in such matters cried in the top of mine--an excellent play,
well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty
as cunning. I remember, one said there were no sallets in[898] 420
the lines to make the matter savoury, nor no matter in the
phrase that might indict the author of affection; but called[899]
it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very[900]
much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I chiefly[900][901]
loved: 'twas Æneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially,[902] 425
where he speaks of Priam's slaughter: if it live in[903]
your memory, begin at this line; let me see, let me see;
'The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast,'--[904]
It is not so: it begins with 'Pyrrhus.'[905]
'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, 430
Black as his purpose, did the night resemble[906]
When he lay couched in the ominous horse,[907]
Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd[908]
With heraldry more dismal: head to foot[909]
Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd[910] 435
With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
Baked and impasted with the parching streets,[911]
That lend a tyrannous and a damned light[912][913]
To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,[913][914]
And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,[915] 440
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus[916]
Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
So, proceed you.[917]
_Pol_ 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent
and good discretion. 445
_First Play._ 'Anon he finds him[894]
Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,[918]
Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,[919]
Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,[920]
Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; 450
But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,[921]
Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top[922]
Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash[923]
Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,[924] 455
Which was declining on the milky head
Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:[925]
So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood.[926]
And like a neutral to his will and matter,[927][928]
Did nothing.[928] 460
But as we often see, against some storm,
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,[929]
The bold winds speechless and the orb below[930]
As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region, so after Pyrrhus' pause[924][931] 465
Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;[932]
And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall[933]
On Mars's armour, forged for proof eterne,[934]
With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword[924]
Now falls on Priam. 470
Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,[935]
In general synod take away her power,
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,[936]
And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven
As low as to the fiends!' 475
_Pol._ This is too long.[937]
_Ham._ It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,[938]
say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps:
say on: come to Hecuba.
_First Play._ 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled
queen--'[939][940][941] 480
_Ham._ 'The mobled queen?'[940][942]
_Pol._ That's good; 'mobled queen' is good.[943]
_First Play._ 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames[944]
With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head[945]
Where late the diadem stood; and for a robe, 485
About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,
A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up:[946]
Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd
'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced:[947]
But if the gods themselves did see her then, 490
When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,[948]
The instant burst of clamour that she made,
Unless things mortal move them not at all,[949]
Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven[950] 495
And passion in the gods.'[951]
_Pol._ Look, whether he has not turned his colour and[952]
has tears in's eyes. Prithee, no more.[953]
_Ham._ 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest of this[954]
soon. Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?[955] 500
Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract[956]
and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were
better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.[957]
_Pol._ My lord, I will use them according to their desert.[958]
_Ham._ God's bodykins, man, much better: use every[959] 505
man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping? Use[958][960]
them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve,
the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.
_Pol._ Come, sirs.
_Ham._ Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow. 510
[_Exit Polonius with all the Players but the First._[961]
Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of[962]
Gonzago?[963]
_First Play._ Ay, my lord.
_Ham._ We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a[961][964][965]
need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which[965][966] 515
I would set down and insert in't, could you not?[967]
_First Play._ Ay, my lord.
_Ham._ Very well. Follow that lord; and look you[961]
mock him not. [_Exit First Player._] My good friends, I'll[968]
leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore.[969] 520
_Ros._ Good my lord![970]
_Ham._ Ay, so, God be wi' ye! [_Exeunt Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern._] Now I am alone.[971]
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,[972] 525
Could force his soul so to his own conceit[973]
That from her working all his visage wann'd;[974]
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,[975]
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting[976]
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing![977] 530
For Hecuba![978]
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,[979]
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion[980]
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears 535
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,[981]
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears.[982][983]
Yet I,[982][984][985] 540
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,[984][985][986]
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,[985][987]
And can say nothing; no, not for a king,[985]
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?[988] 545
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?[988]
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?[988]
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,[988]
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?[988]
Ha![989] 550
'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be[990]
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this[991]
I should have fatted all the region kites[992]
With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain![993] 555
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain![994]
O, vengeance![995]
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,[996]
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,[997]
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, 560
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,[998][999]
A scullion![998][999]
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! Hum, I have heard[998][1000]
That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,[998][1001] 565
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently[1002]
They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players[1003] 570
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,[1004]
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen[1005]
May be the devil; and the devil hath power[1006] 575
To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds
More relative than this. The play's the thing 580
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. [_Exit._
FOOTNOTES:
[560] ACT II. SCENE I.] Q (1676) and Rowe. Actus Secundus. Ff.
A room ...] An Apartment ... Rowe.
Enter ... Reynaldo.] Capell. Enter old Polonius, with his man or two.
Qq. Enter ... Reynoldo. Ff.
[561] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff.
_these_] Q₂ Q₃ F₁. _these two_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _those_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[562] _Reynaldo_] Qq. _Reynoldo_ Ff.
[563] _marvellous_] Q₅ Q₆. _meruiles_ Q₂ Q₃. _maruelous_ Q₄. _maruels_
F₁. _marvels_ F₂ F₃ F₄.]
_wisely,_] Q₆. _wisely_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _wisely:_ Ff.
[564] _to make inquire_] Qq. _you make inquiry_ Ff. _make you inquiry_
Rowe. _to make inquiry_ Q (1676) and Pope.
[565] _Marry ... sir,_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
_Marry_] _Mary_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[566] _Danskers_] _Dantz'ckers_ Capell (corrected in MS.)
[567] _at_] om. F₄.
[568] _nearer Than_] Capell. _neerer Then_ Qq F₁. _neere Than_ F₂.
_near Then_ F₃. _near. Then_ Q (1676) and Pope. _near, Then_ F₄.
[569] _As_] Qq. _And_ Ff.
[570] _if't_] Ff. _y'ft_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _if it_ Q₆.
[571] _Ay ... far._] Arranged as in Capell. In Qq Ff the first line
ends at _swearing._
[572] _fencing_] Put in brackets by Warburton as an interpolation.
[573] _no_] Ff. om. Qq.
[574] _another_] _an utter_ Hanmer (Theobald conj. withdrawn).
[575] _That_] _Than_ Keightley.
[576] _A savageness ... assault._] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[577] _unreclaimed_] Q₅ Q₆. _unreclamed_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _unreclaim'd_ Ff.
[578] _lord,--_] _lord--_ Pope. _Lord._ Qq Ff.
[579] _Ay, ... that._] As in Steevens (1778). One line in Qq Ff.
[580] _lord_] _good lord_ Capell, ending the line at _lord._
[581] _warrant_] Ff. _wit_ Qq.
[582] _sullies_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ F₄. _sallies_ Q₂ Q₃. _sulleyes_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[583] _i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _with_ Qq.
[584] _Mark ... sound,_] As in Malone. One line in Qq Ff.
[585] _you,_] Qq. _you_ Ff.
[586] _him_] _he_ Q₆.
_you would_] _you'ld_ Johnson.
[587] _seen in_] _seene in_ Qq. _seene._ _In_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _seen. In_ F₄.
_prenominate_] _prenominate_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
[588] _breathe_] Rowe (ed. 2). _breath_ Qq Ff. _speak_ Pope.
[589] _consequence_] _cosequence_ Q₄.
[590] _or so_] Put in parentheses in Qq.
_or so, or_] _or Sir, or_ Hanmer. _or sire or_ Warburton. _forsooth,
or_ Johnson conj. _or so forth,_ Steevens conj. (1778).
[591] _or_] Qq. _and_ Ff.
_addition_] _addistion_ Q₂ Q₃.
[592] _And then ... leave?_] Prose first by Malone. Three lines in
Qq, ending _say?... something, ... leave?_ Three lines in Ff, ending
_this?... say? ... leave?_ Capell ends the lines _was I ... say ...
leave?_
[593] _does he this--he does_] _does he this? He does:_ Ff. _doos a
this, a doos,_ Q₂ Q₃. _doos a this, a doos:_ Q₄ Q₅. _does a this, a
does:_ Q₆.
[594] _By the mass_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
_something_] _nothing_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[595] _At ... gentleman.'_] Prose in Globe ed. Two lines, the first
ending _consequence:_ in Ff.
_at 'friend ... gentleman.'_] Omitted in Qq.
[596] Pol.] Reynol. F₂. Pelon. F₃.
[597] _closes with you thus_] Ff. _closes thus_ Qq. _closeth with him
thus_ (Q₁).
[598] _t'other_] _tother_ F₁ F₂. _'tother_ F₃ F₄. _th' other_ Qq.
[599] _Or then, or then,_] _Or then,_ Pope.
_or such_] Qq. _and such_ Ff.
[600] _a'_] _a_ Qq. _he_ Ff.
_gaming, there_] _gaming, there_ Ff. _gaming there_ Qq.
_o'ertook_] _or tooke_ Qq.
[601] _There_] _Their_ F₂ F₃.
[602] _such_] Q₂ Q₃ Ff. _such or such_ Q₄ Q₅. _such and such_ Q₆.
_sale_] Qq. _saile_ F₁ F₂. _sail_ F₃ F₄.
[603] _Videlicet ... now_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[604] _falsehood takes_] _falshood takes_ Q₆. _falshood, takes_ Ff.
_falshood take_ Q₂ Q₃. _falshood: take_ Q₄ Q₅.
_carp_] _carpe_ Qq. _cape_ Ff.
[605] _assays_] _essayes_ Q₆.
[606] _indirections_] _indirects_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[607] _advice_] Ff Q₆. _advise_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[608] _be wi' ye_] _buy ye_ Qq. _buy you_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _b'w'you_ F₄.
_fare ye_] Q₆. _far ye_ Q₂ Q₃. _far yee_?] Q₄ Q₅. _fare you_ Ff.
[609] _Good my lord!_] Dyce. _Good my Lord._ Qq Ff. _Good my Lord--_
Rowe. _But, my good lord,--_ Capell conj.
[610] _in_] _e'en_ Hanmer.
[611] [Exit Reynaldo.] Exit Rey. Qq (after _lord_). Exit. Ff (after
_lord_).
SCENE II.] Pope.
[Enter Ophelia.] As in Singer (ed. 2). Before _Farewell!_ in Qq Ff.
Enter Ophelia, hastily. Capell.
[612] _O, my lord,_] Qq. _Alas,_ Ff.
[613] _i' the_] _i' th_ Qq. _in the_ Ff.
_God_] Qq. _Heaven_ Ff.
[614] _sewing_] Warburton. _sowing_ Qq Ff. _reading_ Q (1676).
_closet_] Q₆. _closset_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _chamber_ Ff.
[615] _Lord_] _Prince_ Q (1676).
[616] _foul'd_] Ff Q₆. _fouled_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _loose_ Q (1676). See note
(XI).
[617] _down-gyved_] F₃ F₄. _downe gyved_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₆. _downe gyred_ Q₄ Q₅.
_downe gived_ F₁. _downe-gyved_ F₂. _down-gyred_ Theobald.
[618] _horrors, he_] Qq. _horrors: he_ Ff. _horrors: thus he_ Pope.
_horrors there, he_ Anon. conj.
[619] _My lord ... it._] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[620] _and held me hard_] Omitted in F₂ F₃ F₄.
[621] _As he_] Ff. _As a_ Qq.
_Long_] _Long time_ Pope.
[622] _mine_] Qq F₁. _my_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _his_ Pope (ed. 2).
[623] _piteous_] Q₆. _pittious_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _hideous_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[624] _As_] Qq. _That_ Ff.
[625] _that done,_] _Then_ Pope.
_me_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[626] _shoulder_] Q₂ Q₃. _shoulders_ The rest.
[627] _o'doors_] Theobald. _adoores_ Q₂ Q₃. _a doores_ Q₄. _of doores_
Q₅ Q₆. _adores_ F₁ F₂. _adoors_ F₃ F₄.
_helps_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _helpes_ Q₅ Q₆. _helpe_ (Q₁) F₁ F₂. _help_ F₃ F₄.
[628] _Come_] Qq. om. Ff.
[629] _fordoes_] _forgoes_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[630] _passion_] Ff. _passions_ Qq.
[631] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
_heed_] Q₅ Q₆. _heede_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _speed_ Ff.
[632] _quoted_] Ff. _coted_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coated_ Q₆. _noted_ Warburton.
_fear'd_] Qq. _feare_ F₁ F₂. _fear_ F₃ F₄.
_did but trifle_] _trifl'd_ Pope.
[633] _wreck_] _wrack_ Qq F₃ F₄. _wracke_ F₁ F₂. _rack_ Upton conj.
_beshrew_] Ff Q₆. _beshrow_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[634] _By heaven,_] (Q₁) Qq. _It seemes_ F₁ F₂. _It seems_ F₃ F₄.
[635] _we_] _with me_ Q (1676).
[636] _which_] _wͨ_ F₁.
[637] _than hate_] _hate, than_ Hanmer. _than haste_ Anon. conj.
[638] _Come._] Qq. om. Ff.
[639] SCENE II.] Scena secunda. Ff. SCENE III. Pope.
A room....] Capell. The Palace. Rowe.
Flourish.] om. Ff.
Rosencratz,] Malone. Rossencraft, (Q₁). Rosencraus Qq. Rosincrane,
F₁. Rosincrosse, F₂ F₃. Rosincross, F₄. Roseneraus, Rowe (ed. 2).
Rosincrantz, Theobald.
Guildenstern] Rowe. Gilderstone (Q₁). Guyldensterne Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
Guildensterne F₁ Q₆. Guildenstare F₂ F₃ F₄.
and Attendants.] Lords and other Attendants. Rowe. Omitted in Qq.
Cumalijs. F₁ F₂. cum aliis. F₃ F₄.
[640] _Rosencrantz_] Malone. _Rosencraus_ Qq. _Rosincrance_ F₁.
_Rosincros_ F₂. _Rosincross_ F₃ F₄.
[641] _Guildenstern_] Rowe. _Guyldensterne_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_Guildensterne_ F₁ Q₆. _Guildenstare_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[642] _have you_] _you have_ Q₆.
[643] _call_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _I call_ Ff Q₆.
[644] _Sith nor_] Qq. _Since not_ Ff.
[645] _dream_] _dreame_ Qq. _deeme_ F₁ F₂. _deem_ F₃ F₄.
[646] _sith_] Qq. _since_ Ff.
_neighbour_'d] Ff. _nabored_ Q₂ Q₃. _neighbored_ Q₄. _neighboured_ Q₅
Q₆.
_haviour_] Q₅ Q₆. _hauior_ Q₂ Q₃. _hau r_ Q₄. _humour_ Ff. _'havour_
Warburton.
[647] _occasion_] Qq. _occasions_ Ff.
[648] _Whether ... thus,_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _If ... thus,_ Rowe.
[649] _open'd_] om. Q (1676).
[650] _are_] _is_ Q₂ Q₃.
[651] _gentry_] _gentleness_ Q (1676).
[652] _expend_] _extend_ Q₄ Q₅. _employ_ Q (1676).
[653] _shall_] _should_ Q₆.
[654] _of us_] _over us_ Q (1676). _o'er us_ Mason conj.
[655] _to_] _into_ Keightley.
_But we_] Qq. _We_ Ff.
[656] _service_] Qq. _services_ Ff.
[657] _To be commanded._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[658] _My ... you,_] As in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
_you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.
[659] _these_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
[660] _Ay,_] Capell. _I_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. om. Ff Q₆. _Amen,_ Keightley.
[Exeunt Rosencrantz....] Exeunt Ros. and Gui., Attendants with them.
Capell. Exeunt Ros. and Guyld. Qq. Exit. F₁ (after _him_). Exeunt. F₂
F₃ F₄ (after _him_).
[661] [Aside to the King. Anon. conj.
_I assure_] Qq. _Assure you,_ Ff.
[662] _and_] Qq. _one_ Ff.
[663] _sure_] _be sure_ F₃ F₄.
[664] _it hath_] Qq. _I have_ Ff.
[665] _that; that_] Capell. _that, that_ Qq Ff.
_do I_] _doe I_ Qq. _I do_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _I doe._ F₂.
[666] _fruit_] Q₅ Q₆. _fruite_ Q₂ Q₃. _frute_ Q₄. _newes_ F₁ F₂. _news_
F₃ F₄. _nuts_ Hunter conj.
_to_] _of_ Johnson.
[667] [Exit Polonius.] Ex. Pol. Rowe. Omitted in Qq Ff.
[668] _my dear Gertrude_] Capell. _my deere Gertrard_ Q₂ Q₃. _my
decree: Gertrud_ Q₄ Q₅. _my deare Gertrud_ Q₆. _my sweet queene, that_
Ff (_queen_ F₃ F₄).
[669] _o'erhasty_] _hastie_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₅ Q₆. _hasty_ Q₄.
[670] SCENE IV. Pope.
Re-enter Polonius....] Theobald. Enter Polonius, Voltimand, and
Cornelius. Ff (Voltumand, F₁), after line 57. Enter Embassadors. Qq,
after line 57.
_Welcome, my_] _Welcome home,_ S. Walker conj.
_my_] Qq. om. Ff.
[671] _Voltimand_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Voltemand_ Qq. _Voltumand_ F₁.
[672] _levies_] _lives_ Q (1695).
[673] _Polack_] _Polacke_ (Q₁). _Pollacke_ Qq. _Poleak_ F₁. _Polak_ F₂
F₃ F₄.
[674] _three_] (Q₁) Ff. _threescore_ Qq.
[675] _shown_] _shone_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[Giving a paper.] Malone. om. Qq Ff. Letter. Collier MS. See note (II).
[676] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. _that_ (Q₁).
[677] _therein_] _herein_ Q₆.
[678] _consider'd_] Ff. _considered_ Qq.
[679] _Answer, and think upon_] _And think upon an answer to_ Hanmer.
_And think upon and answer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
[680] _thank_] _take_ F₁.
_well-took_] _well-look't_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _well-luck'd_ Theobald conj.
(withdrawn).
[681] [Exeunt Vol. and Cor.] Capell. Exeunt Embassadors. Qq. Exit
Ambass. Ff.
_well_] Qq. _very well_ Ff.
[682] _since_] Ff. om. Qq.
_brevity is_] _brevity's_ Pope.
[683] _limbs_] _lines_ Theobald. conj. (withdrawn).
[684] _it:_] _it?_ Q (1676).
[685] _mad?_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _mad,_ Q₂ Q₃. _mad._ Ff.
[686] _he is_] Ff. _hee's_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₆. _he's_ Q₅.
_mad, 'tis_] _mad, is_ Capell.
[687] _'tis 'tis_] _it is_ Ff. _it is, 'tis_ Hanmer.
[688] _farewell it_] _farewell, wit_ Anon. conj.
[689] _the_] _the the_ F₂.
[690] _remains ... Perpend._] _remains: remainder thus perpend._ Maginn
conj.
[691] _thus._] Ff Q₆. _thus_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[692] _Perpend._] A separate line in Qq. Ending line 104 in Ff.
_Consider._ Q (1676).
[693] _while_] (Q₁) Qq. _whil'st_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _whilst_ F₂.
[694] [Reads.] Q (1676). The Letter. Ff. om. Qq. He opens a Letter, and
reads. Rowe.
[695] _and_] om. Q₆.
_idol_] _fair idol_ Capell, reading as verse.
_beautified_] _beatified_ Theobald.
[696] _vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
_beautified_] _that beatify'd_ Capell, reading as verse.
_vile_] Qq F₄. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[697] _Thus: ... these,' &c._] See note (XII).
[698] [Reads.] Dyce. om. Qq Ff.
[699] _excellent white_] _excellent-white_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker
conj.)]
_&c._] Qq. om. Ff.
[700] [Reads.] Reading. Rowe. Letter. Qq. om. Ff.
[701] _HAMLET._] See note (XIII).
[702] _shown_] _showne_ Qq. _shew'd_ Ff.
[703] _above_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _aboue_ F₁. _about_ Qq.
_above, hath_] _about have_ Q₆. _concerning_ Q (1676).
_solicitings_] Qq. _soliciting_ Ff.
[704] _But ... love?_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[705] _think,_] Capell. _thinke_ Qq. _think?_ Ff.
[706] _this_] _his_ F₃ F₄.
_wing,--_] _wing,_ Q₂ Q₃ Ff Q₆. _wing?_ Q₄ Q₅.
[707] _your_] _you_ F₂.
[708] _play'd_] _ply'd_ Keightley conj.
[709] _a winking_] Ff Q₆. _a working_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _working_ Pope.
[710] _my young mistress_] Put in parentheses in F₁.
_thus_] _this_ Q₄ Q₅.
[711] _prince, out_] _prince:--out_ Steevens.
_out of thy star_] Q₂ Q₃. _out of thy starre_ Q₄ Q₅ F₁. _out of your
starre_ (Q₁). _out of thy sphere_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _above thy sphere_ Q
(1676).
_out of thy star_] _out of thy soar_ Bailey conj.
[712] _prescripts_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _precepts_ Ff Q₆.
[713] _his_] Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆. _her_ Q₂ Q₃.
[714] _she took ... And he_] _see too ... For, he_ Warburton.
[715] _repulsed, a_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _repulsed._ _A_ F₁. _repell'd, a_ Q₂ Q₃
Q₆. _repel'd. a_ Q₄. _repel'd,_ a Q₅. _repelled, a_ Jennens.
[716] _Fell into_] _Fell to_ Pope.
[717] _watch_] _wath_ Q₂ Q₃. _watching_ Pope. _watch; and_ Keightley.
_thence into_] _then into_ Q (1676). _and thence into_ Maginn conj.
[718] _into a weakness, Thence to_] _to a weakness; thence Into_ S.
Walker conj.
[719] _a_] om. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[720] _wherein_] Qq. _whereon_ Ff.
[721] _all we mourn_] _all we mourne_ Qq. _all we wail_ Ff. _we all
wail_ Collier MS.
[722] _this_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _'tis this_ Ff Q₆.
_like_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _likely_ Ff Q₆.
[723] _I'ld_] _I'de_ Ff. _I would_ Qq.
[724] [Pointing ... shoulder] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). om. Qq Ff.
_this, if ... otherwise:_] _this, if ... otherwise;_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_this; if ... otherwise,_ F₁. _this, if ... otherwise,_ F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄.
[725] _further_] _farther_ Collier.
[726] _You ... lobby._] As in Qq. Three lines, ending _sometimes ...
heere ... lobby,_ in Ff.
[727] _four_] F₃ F₄. _foure_ The rest. _for_ Hanmer.
[728] _does_] Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _dooes_ Q₂ Q₃. _ha's_ F₁. _has_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[729] _an arras_] _the arras_ Q₆.
_Be ... then;_] _Let ... then_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
[730] _arras then; Mark_] _arras then, Marke_ Qq Ff (_Mark_ F₄).
_arras; then Mark_ Staunton. _arras then To mark_ Keightley.
[731] _But_] Qq. _And_ Ff.
_and_] _of_ Q (1703).
[732] SCENE V. Pope.
_But ... reading._] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _wretch,_ in
Ff.
[733] _you, both_] Ff. _you both_ Qq. _you both,_ Anon. conj.
[734] [Exeunt.... Enter....] See note (XIV).
[735] _Well, God-a-mercy._] _Excellent well._ Q (1676).
[736] _Excellent_] Qq. _Excellent, excellent_ Ff.
_you are_] Qq. _y'are_ Ff. _you're_ Dyce.
[737] _lord!_] _lord?_ Ff Q₆. _lord._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[738] _Ay, sir ... thousand._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending
_goes,_ in Qq.
[739] _man_] om. F₃ F₄.
_ten_] Q₅ Q₆. _tenne_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _two_ Ff.
[740] Ham.] Ham. [reads]. Staunton.
[741] _god kissing carrion_] Hanmer (Warburton). _good kissing carrion_
Qq Ff. _god-kissing carrion_ Malone conj. _good, kissing carrion_
Whiter conj. _carrion-kissing god_ Mitford conj.
_carrion--_] Ff. _carrion._ Qq.
[742] _but as ... conceive,--friend_] Malone. _but as ... conceave,
friend_ Qq. _but not as ... conceive. Friend_ Ff.
[743] _How ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell.
_Still ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Steevens. Verse, Maginn conj.,
ending the lines _on ... first; ... he is ... youth ... love; ...
again._
[744] _at first_] _at the first_ Q (1676).
[745] _he said ... he_] Ff. _a said ... a_ Qq. _but said ... he_ Q
(1676).
[746] _he is ... again._] Marked as 'Aside' by Pope, who reads as three
lines of verse.
[747] _far gone_] Qq. _farre gone, farre gone_ Ff.
[748] _much_] om. Maginn conj.
[749] _lord?_] Ff Q₆. _lord._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[750] _who?_] F₁ Q₆. _who._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _whom?_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[751] _that you read_] Qq. _you meane_ F₁ F₂. _you mean_ F₃ F₄.
[752] _rogue_] Qq. _slave_ Ff.
[753] _and plum-tree_] Q₅ Q₆. _& plum-tree_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _or plum-tree_ Ff.
[754] _lack_] _lacke_ Qq. _locke_ F₁ F₂. _lock_ F₃ F₄.
_most_] Qq. om. Ff.
[755] _yourself_] _your selfe_ Qq. _you your selfe_ F₁ F₂. _you your
self_ F₃ F₄.
_shall grow old_] Qq. _should be old_ Ff. _shall be as old_ Rowe.
_shall be but as old_ Hanmer. _shall grow as old_ Malone.
[756] [Aside] First marked by Capell.
[757] _Though ... lord?_] Prose in Qq. Three lines, ending
_madnesse, ... walke ... lord?_ in Ff. Two lines of verse, the first
ending _in't,_ in Rowe.
[758] _there is_] _there's_ Rowe.
[759] _grave._] Qq. _grave?_ Ff.
[760] _Indeed ... you._] Prose in Qq. Eleven irregular lines in Ff:
nine in Rowe and Pope.
[761] _that's out of the_] Qq. _that is out oth'_ Ff.
[Aside] Marked first by Capell.
[762] _often madness_] _madness often_ Jennens.
[763] _reason and sanity_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _reason and sanitie_ F₁. _reason
and sanctity_ Qq. _sanity and reason_ Pope.
[764] _so prosperously be_] _so happily be_ Q₆. _be So prosp'rously_
Pope.
[765] _I will_] _I'll_ Pope.
[766] _and suddenly ... him_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[767] _My ... humbly_] Ff. _My lord, I will_ Qq.
[768] _sir_] Ff. om. Qq.
[769] _will_] Ff. _will not_ Qq.
[770] _except my life_] Three times in Qq. _except my life, my life._
Ff. _except my life._ Pope. [Aside] _except ... life._ Anon. conj.
[771] _These ... fools!_] _Thou ... fool!_ Maginn conj.
Enter....] As in Capell. Enter Guyldersterne, and Rosencraus. Qq (after
line 214). Enter Rosincran and Guildensterne. F₁. Enter Rosincros and
Guildenstar. F₂ F₃. Enter Rosincros and Guildensterne. F₄ (after line
217 in Ff).
[772] _the Lord_] Qq. _my Lord_ Ff. _lord_ Pope.
[773] SCENE VI. Pope.
[To Polonius] Malone.
[Exit Polonius.] As in Capell. Exit. Pope (after line 217).
[774] _My_] Qq. _Mine_ Ff.
[775] _excellent_] _extent_ Q₂ Q₃. _exelent_ Q₄.
[776] _Ah_] Q₆. _A_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Oh_ Ff.
_you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.
[777] _Happy ... button._] Arranged as by Hanmer. Two lines, the first
ending _lap,_ in Qq (_cap_ Q₆). Prose in Ff.
_over-happy; On Fortune's cap we_] Hanmer. _over-happy: on Fortune's
cap, we_ Ff. _ever happy on Fortunes lap, We_ Qq (_cap_ Q₆).
[778] _On_] _Of_ Anon. conj.
[779] _shoe_] _shooes_ Collier MS. See note (II).
_shoe?_] _shoo?_ F₁. _shooe?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _shooe._ Qq.
[780] _waist_] Johnson. _wast_ Qq. _waste_ Ff.
[781] _favours?_] Pope. _favors._ Qq. _favour?_ Ff.
[782] _her_] _in her_ Pope, ed. 2.
[783] _What's the_] Ff. _What_ Qq.
_news?_] _newes?_ Qq F₁. _newes._ F₂ F₃. _news._ F₄.
[784] _that_] Ff. om. Qq.
[785] _but_] _sure_ Q (1676).
[786] _Let me ... attended._] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[787] _o' the_] _o' th'_ Ff. _of the_ Capell.
[788] _Why ... so:_] Two lines of verse, the first ending _nothing,_ S.
Walker conj.
[789] _bad_] _had_ Anon. conj.
[790] _fay_] Pope. _fey_ Ff.
[791] Ros. Guil.] Both. Ff.
[792] _friendship,_] Qq F₁. _friendship._ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[793] _Elsinore_] Malone. _Elsonoure_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Elsonower_ F₁.
_Elsinooer_ F₂. _Elsenour_ Q₆. _Elsinoore_ F₃ F₄.
[794] _even_] Ff Q₆. _ever_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[795] _a halfpenny_] _of a halfpenny_ Theobald. _at a halfpenny_ Hanmer.
[796] _Come, deal_] Ff. _come, come, deale_ Qq.
[797] _Why_] Ff. om. Qq.]
_any thing, but_] Q₆. _any thing but_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _any thing. But_ Ff.
_purpose. You_] _purpose you_ Q (1676).
[798] _of_] Qq. om. Ff.
[799] _our fellowship_] _our fellowships_ Q₆. _your fellowship_ F₃ F₄.
[800] _ever-preserved_] _ever preferred_ Q (1676).
[801] _could_] Ff. _can_ Qq.
_charge_] _change_ Q₅.
[802] _no._] Qq Ff. _no?_ Pope.
[803] [Aside to Guil.] Edd. (Globe ed.) To Guilden. Theobald. To
Hamlet. Delius conj.
[804] Ham. _Nay ... off._] Omitted by Jennens.
[805] [Aside] Marked first by Steevens (1793).
_of you.--_] _of you:_ Ff. _of you?_ Q₂ Q₃. _of you,_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _on
you_ Harness conj.
[806] _discovery, and_] _discovery of_ Ff.
[807] _and your ... moult_] Qq. _of your ... queene: moult_ Ff. _of
your ... queen. Moult_ Knight.
[808] _feather. I_] _feather: I_ Q₆. _feather, I_ The rest.
[809] _exercises_] Qq. _exercise_ Ff.
[810] _heavily_] Qq. _heavenly_ Ff.
[811] _brave o'erhanging_] _brave-o'erhanging_ S. Walker conj.
_o'erhanging_] _ore-hanged_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _o'erchanging_] Jennens.
[812] _firmament_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[813] _appears_] _appeares_ F₁. _appeared_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _appeareth_ Qq.
_no other thing to me than_] _nothing to me but_ Qq.
[814] _What a piece_] Ff Q₆. _What peece_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_a man_] _man_ Q₆.
[815] _faculty_] Ff. _faculties_ Qq.
[816] _faculty!... god!_] Pointed as in Q₆ and Ff, substantially.
_faculties, in ... mooving, how ... action, how ... apprehension,
how ... God:_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ (no other stops).
[817] _no_] om. Qq.
_woman_] _women_ Q₂ Q₃.
[818] _seem_] _see me_ F₂.
[819] _you_] Ff. _yee_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _ye_ Q₆.
_then_] Qq. om. Ff.
[820] _lenten_] Q₆. _Lenton_ The rest.
[821] _coted_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _coated_ Ff Q₆. _met_ Q (1676). _accosted_
Rowe. _'costed_ Capell. _quoted_ Jennens conj. _escoted_ Staunton conj.
_are they_] _are the_ Q₄ Q₅.
[822] _of me_] Ff Q₆. _on me_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[823] _sigh_] _sing_ Q₄ Q₅.
[824] _the clown ... sere,_] Omitted in Qq.
[825] _o' the_] _a' th'_ F₁. _ath'_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_sere_] _scene_ Malone conj.
[826] _blank_] _black_ Q₂ Q₃.
[827] _such_] Qq. om. Ff.
[828] _in, the_] Qq F₄. _in the_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[829] _they_] _the_ Q₄ Q₅.
_travel_] Q₆ F₃ F₄. _travaile_ The rest.
[830] _was_] _were_ Anon conj.
[831] _inhibition ... innovation._] _itineration ... innovation._
Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _innovation ... inhibition._ Johnson conj.
[832] _the means_] _means_ Johnson.
[833] _innovation._] _innovation?_ Ff.
[834] _Do they_] _Do the_ Q₄ Q₅.
[835] _are they_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _they are_ Ff Q₆.
[836] Ham. _How ... load too._] Omitted in Qq.
[837] _eyrie_] _ayrie_ F₁. _ayry_ F₂. _airy_ F₃ F₄.
_eyases_] Theobald. _Yases_ Ff.
[838] _question_] _the question_ Capell.
[839] _fashion_] _faction_ Hughs.
_berattle_] _be-rattle_ F₃ F₄. _be ratle_ F₂. _be-ratled_ F₁.
[840] _stages_] _stagers_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[841] _'em_] _them_ Capell.
[842] _players,_] _players?_ Pope (ed. 1).
[843] _most like,_] Pope. _like most_ Ff. _like, most,_ Capell. _like
most will,_ Anon. conj.
_no_] _not_ F₂.
_them_] _them on_ Pope (ed. 2).
[844] _succession?_] Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _succession_. Ff.
[845] _load_] _club_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[846] _very strange; for_] Q₆. _very strange, for_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_strange: for_ F₁. _strange for_ F₂ F₃. _strange, for_ F₄.
_my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
[847] _mows_] _mowes_ Ff. _mouths_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _mouthes_ Q₆.
[848] _fifty_] Qq. om. Ff.
_a_] Qq. _an_ Ff.
[849] _'Sblood_] _S'blood_ Q₆. _S'bloud_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. om. Ff.
[850] [Flourish ...] Capell. A Florish. Qq. Flourish for the Players.
Ff.
[851] _There ... players._] _Shall we call the players?_ Q (1676).
[852] _then_] Qq. om. Ff.
_appurtenance_] _apportenance_ Q₄ Q₅.
[853] _comply_] _complement_ Hanmer.
_this_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
[854] _lest my_] Ff Q₆. _let me_ Q₂ Q₃. _let my_ Q₄ Q₅.
[855] _extent_] _ostent_ Collier conj.
[856] _outwards_] Qq. _outward_ Ff.
[857] _handsaw_] Ff. _hand saw_ Q Q₃. _hand-saw_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _hernshaw_
Hanmer. _heronsew_ Anon. conj.
[858] SCENE VII. Pope.
[859] _too: at_] Ff. _too, at_ Q₆. _to, at_ Q₂ Q₃. _to, are_ Q₄ Q₅.
[860] _you see there is_] _as you see is_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[861] _swaddling clouts_] _swadling clouts_ Qq. _swathing clouts_ Ff.
_swathling clouts_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[862] _Happily_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Happely_ Q₆. _Haply_ F₄.
_he's_] F₁ F₃ F₄. _he is_ Qq. _hes_ F₂.
[863] _prophesy he_] _prophecy, he_ Q₂ Q₃. _prophecy that he_ Q₄.
_prophecie that he_ Q₅ Q₆. _prophesie. Hee_ F₁. _prophesie, He_ F₂ F₃
F₄.
[864] _it. You_] _it: You_ Q₆. _it, You_ Q₂ Q₃. _it, you_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff.
_o'_] Capell. _a_ Qq. _for a_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _for on_ F₄.
_morning;_] _morning,_ Q₂ Q₃. _morning_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆.
[865] _so_] (Q₁) Ff. _then_ Qq.
[866] _Roscius_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Rossius_ Qq F₁.
[867] _was_] Qq. om. Ff.
_Rome,--_] _Rome--_ Ff. _Rome._ Qq.
[868] _my_] Qq. _mine_ Ff.
_honour,--_] _honour--_ Rowe. _honor._ or _honour._ Qq Ff.
[869] _Then ... ass,--_] Marked as a quotation by Steevens (Johnson
conj.)
_came_] Qq. _can_ Ff.
_ass,--_] _asse--_ Ff. _asse._ Qq.
[870] _pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral_] Q₄ Q₅
Q₆. _pastorall comicall, historicall pastorall_ Q₂ Q₃.
_pastoricall-comicall-historicall-pastorall_ Ff.
[871] _tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral_]
Omitted in Qq.
[872] _scene_] _seeme_ Q₄ Q₅.
_individable_] _indevidible_ Q₂ Q₃. _indevidable_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _indivible_
Ff. _undividable_ Rowe.
[873] _light. For ... liberty, these_] Theobald. _light for ...
liberty: these_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _light, for ... liberty. These_ Ff. _light
for ... liberty; these_ Q₆ Q (1676).
[874] _writ_] _wit_ Q (1676) and Rowe.
[875] _the liberty_] _liberty_ Q (1676).
[876] _O Jephthah ... Israel_] As a quotation in Pope.
[877] _&c. Jephthah_] Hanmer. _Ieptha_ Qq. _Iephta_ F₁ F₂. _Jephta_ F₃
F₄.
[878] _What a treasure_] (Q₁) Qq. Ff. _What treasure_ Dyce, ed. 2 (S.
Walker conj.)
[879] _Why ... well'_] As in Capell. Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.
Marked as a quotation in Pope.
[880] [Aside] Marked first by Capell.
[881] Pol. _If ... not._] Omitted in Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[882] _you_] _thou_ Jennens.
[883] _Why ... wot,_] As in Malone. Prose in Qq Ff. Pope prints as a
quotation _by ... wot._
[884] _and then ... was,'_] As in Pope. Prose in Qq Ff.
[885] _pious chanson_] Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Pons Chanson_ F₁. _Pans Chanson_
F₂ F₃ F₄. _pans chanson_ Q₆. _godly Ballet_ (Q₁). _rubrick_ Q (1676).
_Pont-chansons_ Hanmer. _Pont chanson_ (i.e. 'chanson du Pont Neuf')
Hunter conj.
[886] _abridgement comes_] (Q₁) Q₅ Q₆. _abridgment comes_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄.
_abridgements come_ Ff.
Enter....] Ff. Enter the Players. Qq. Enter certain players, usher'd.
Capell.
[887] _You are_] Qq. _Y'are_ Ff.
[888] _thee_] _you_ Hanmer.
_my_] Ff. om. Qq.
[889] _Why, thy_] Qq. _Thy_ Ff.
[890] _valanced_] _vallanced_ (Q₁). _valanct_ Q₂ Q₃. _valanc'd_ Q₄ Q₅
Q₆. _valiant_ Ff.
[891] _By'r lady_] _Byrlady_ F₁. _Berlady_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _burlady_ (Q₁).
_by lady_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _my Ladie_ Q₅. _my Lady_ Q₆.
_ladyship_] _lordship_ F₃ F₄.
_to heaven_] Qq. _heaven_ Ff.
[892] _chopine_] (Q₁) Qq. _choppine_ Ff. _chioppine_ Pope. _chapin_
Jennens.
[893] _e'en to 't_] Q₆. _ento't_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _e'ne to 't_ Ff.
_French_] (Q₁) Ff. _friendly_ Qq.
_falconers_] (Q₁). _fankners_ Q₂ Q₃. _faukners_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _faulconers_
Ff.
[894] First Play.] I Play. Ff. Player. Qq.
[895] _good_] (Q₁) Qq. om. Ff.
[896] _caviare_] Johnson. _cauiary_. Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _cauiarie_ F₁.
_cautary_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _caviary_ Q₆. _a caviary_ Q (1676). _caviar_ Rowe.
_contrary_ Long MS.
[897] _received_] _conceived_ Collier MS. See note (II).
_judgements_] Qq. _judgement_ Ff.
[898] _were no sallets_] Qq. _was no sallets_ (Q₁) Ff. _was no salts_
Pope (ed. I). _was no salt_ Pope (ed. 2). _were no salts_ Capell. _were
no saletés_ Becket conj.
[899] _indict_] Collier. _indite_ Qq Ff.
_affection_] Qq. _affectation_ Ff.
_but_] _but I_ Johnson conj.
[900] _as wholesome ... fine_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[901] _speech_] Qq. _cheefe speech_ F₁. _chiefe speech_ F₂. _chief
speech_ F₃ F₄.
_in it_] (Q₁) Ff. _in't_ Qq.
[902] _Æneas'_] Pope. _Aeneas_ Q₂ Q₃. _Æneas_ Q₄ Q₅ Ff Q₆.
_tale_] (Q₁) Ff. _talke_ Qq. _talkt_ Q (1676).
[903] _where_] (Q₁) Ff. _when_ Qq.
[904] _th' Hyrcanian_] Ff. _Th' ircanian_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _th' ircanian_
Q₆.
[905] _It is not so:_] Ff. _tis not so,_ Q₂ Q₃. _tis not_ Q₄ Q₅. _'tis
not_ Q₆. _'tis not,_ Q (1695).
[906] _his_] _he_ F₂ F₃.
[907] _he_] _his_ F₂ F₄.
_the ominous_] (Q₁) Ff. _th' omynous_ Q₂ Q₃. _th' ominous_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
[908] _this_] _his_ (Q₁) Q₆.
[909] _heraldry_] _heraldy_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_dismal: head to foot_] Pointed as in Ff. _dismall head to foote,_ Q₂
Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _dismall head to foot:_ Q₆.
[910] _total gules_] _totall Gules_ Qq. _to take Geulles_ F₁ F₂. _to
take Geules_ F₃ F₄.
[911] _impasted_] _imbasted_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_streets_] _fires_ Pope.
[912] _and a_] Qq. _and_ Ff.
[913] _tyrannous ... murder_] _treacherous and damned light To the vile
murtherer_ Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
[914] _their lord's murder_] _their Lords murther_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
_their Lords murder_ Q₆. _their vilde Murthers_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _their vile
Murthers_ F₄. _the vile Murthers_ Rowe. _murthers vile_ Pope. _their
lords' murder_ S. Walker conj.
[915] _o'er-sized_] _ore-cised_ Qq.
[916] _carbuncles_] _carbuncle_ Q₆.
[917] _So, proceed you._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[918] _antique_] Pope. _anticke_ or _antick_ Qq Ff.
[919] _to his_] _in his_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[920] _match'd_] _matcht_ Qq. _match_ Ff.
[921] _falls ... Ilium_] _falls then senseless. Ilium_ Theobald conj.
(withdrawn).
_Then senseless Ilium_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[922] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff.
[923] _base_] Qq. _Bace_ Ff.
[924] _Pyrrhus'_] Apostrophe inserted by Pope.
[925] _reverend_] Ff. _reverent_ Qq.
[926] _painted_] Omitted in F₃ F₄.
[927] _And like_] F₁ F₄. _Like_ Qq. _And lik'd_ F₂ F₃.
_and matter_] Erased in Long MS.
[928] _And ... nothing._] As in Qq. One line in Ff.
[929] _rack_] _rackes_ Q₆. _wrack_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[930] _winds_] _wind_ Q₆.
[931] _region, so_] Qq. _region. So_ Ff.
[932] _Aroused_] Collier. _A rowsed_ Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. _A ro wsed_ F₁. _A
roused_ Theobald (ed. 2).
_a-work_] _a-worke_ F₁. _aworke_ Q₆. _a worke_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅ F₂. _a work_
F₃ F₄. _a' work_ Capell.
[933] _Cyclops'_] Apostrophe inserted by Theobald.
[934] _Mars's armour_] Capell. _Marses Armor_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _Mars his
Armours_ Ff. _Mars his armour_ Q₆.
[935] _strumpet, Fortune_] Hyphened in Ff.
[936] _fellies_] F₄. _follies_ Q₂ Q₃. _folles_ Q₄. _fellowes_ Q₅.
_fallies_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _felloes_ Q₆.
[937] _too_] _two_ F₃.
[938] _to the_] (Q₁) Qq. _to'th_ F₁ F₂. _to th'_ F₃ F₄.
[939] _who, O, who_] _who, O who_ (Q₁). _who, O who,_ Ff. _who, a woe,_
Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _who, ah woe_ Q₆. _who alas_ Q (1676). _who, a woe!_
Capell. _who, ah woe!_ Malone (Mason conj.)
[940] _mobled_] Qq. _Moblea_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _inobled_ F₁. _mob-led_ Upton
conj. _ennobl'd_ Capell. _mabled_ Malone. _mobiled_ Becket conj.
[941] _queen--_] _queen,--_ Theobald. _queene,_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄. _queene._ Q₅
F₂ Q₆. _queen._ F₁ F₃. _queen?_ F₄.
[942] _queen?_] Pointed as in Ff. _queene._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _queene!_ Q₆.
[943] _mobled ... good._] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Inobled ... good._ F₁. Omitted in
Qq.
[944] _Run ... flames_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_flames_] Qq. _flame_ Ff.
[945] _bisson rheum_] F₄. _Bison rehume_ (_Bison_ in italics) Q₂ Q₃.
_bison rhume_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _bisson rheume_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
[946] _alarm_] _alarme_ Qq. _alarum_ Ff.
[947] _state_] Qq. _state,_ Ff.
_pronounced:_] _pronounst;_ Q₂ Q₃. _pronounc'd;_ Q₄ Q₅. _pronounc'd:_
Q₆. _pronounc'd?_ Ff.
[948] _husband's_] _husband_ Q₂ Q₃.
[949] _move_] _meant_ F₃ F₄.
_at_] om. F₃ F₄.
[950] _milch_] _melt_ Pope.
[951] _passion in_] _passioned_ Hanmer. _passionate_ Elze (Collier MS.)
_passion e'en_ Taylor conj. MS.
[952] _whether_] Malone. _where_ Qq Ff. _if_ (Q₁) Pope. _whe're_
Theobald. _whe'r_ Capell. _there, if_ Long MS. _whêr_ Dyce.
[953] _has tears_] _has not tears_ Hanmer.
_Prithee_] _Prethee_ Qq. _Pray you_ Ff.
[954] _of this_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[955] _will_] _doe_ Q₆.
_abstract_] Qq. _abstracts_ Ff.
[956] _you hear_] _ye heare_ or _ye hear_ Ff.
[957] _live_] Qq. _lived_ Ff.
[958] _desert_] _desart_ F₁ F₂.
[959] _God's_] _Odd's_ Johnson.
_bodykins_] Ff. _bodkin_ Qq. _bodikin_ Capell.
_much_] Qq. om. Ff. _farre_ (Q₁).
[960] _shall_] Qq. _should_ (Q₁) Ff.
[961] _hear_] _here_ Q₄ Q₅.
[Exit ...] Dyce. Exit Polon. Ff, after line 509. Exeunt Pol. and
Players. Qq (after _Elsinore_, line 520). Exeunt Polonius, and Players.
Capell (after _not_, line 519). Exit Pol. with some of the Players.
Reed (after line 509).
[962] [Aside to Player. Staunton.
[963] _Gonzago_] _Gonzaga_ Johnson.
[964] _ha't_] Ff. _hate_ Q₂ Q₃. _hav't_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆. _have it_ Q (1676).
[965] _for a need_] (Q₁) Ff. _for need_ Qq.
[966] _dozen_] (Q₁) F₃ F₄. _dosen_ F₁ F₂. _dosen lines_ Qq.
_or sixteen_] om. Q (1676).
[967] _you_] Qq. _ye_ Ff.
[968] [Exit First Player.] Exit Player. Reed. om Qq Ff.
[To Ros. and Guild. Johnson.
[969] [Exeunt Players. Collier MS. See note (II).
[970] _Good my_] _Good, my_ Capell.
[971] SCENE VIII. Pope.
_God be wi' ye_] _God b' w' ye_ F₄. _God buy 'ye_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _God buy to
you_ Qq. _Good b' w' ye_ Rowe. _God be wi' you_ Capell.
[Exeunt....] Edd. (Globe ed.) Exeunt. Q₂ Q₃ Ff (after line 522). Exit.
Q₄ Q₅ Q₆ (after line 522).
_I am_] _am I_ Q₆.
[972] _fiction_] F₂ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _fixion_ The rest.
[973] _own_] Qq. _whole_ Ff.
[974] _his visage_] Ff. _the visage_ Qq.
_wann'd_] _wand_ Qq. _warm'd_ Ff.
[975] _in's_] F₁ Q₆ F₃ F₄. _ins_ F₂. _in his_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[976] _and_] _an_ Q₂ Q₃.
[977] _conceit?_] Ff. _conceit;_ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅. _conceit,_ Q₆.
_nothing!_] _nothing?_ Ff. _nothing,_ Qq.
[978] _For Hecuba!_] om. Seymour conj.
_Hecuba!_] _Hecuba?_ Ff Q₆. _Hecuba._ Q₂ Q₃ Q₄ Q₅.
[979] _to Hecuba_] (Q₁) Ff. _to her_ Qq.
[980] _the cue for_] Ff. _that for_ Qq. _that cue for_ Anon. conj.
[981] _appal_] _appall_ Rowe. _appale_ Q₂ Q₃. _appeale_ Q₄ Q₅ Q₆.
_apale_ Ff.
[982] _The ... Yet I,_] Arranged as in Johnson. One line in Qq Ff.
[983] _faculties_] Qq. _faculty_ Ff.
_eyes and ears_] _ears and eyes_ Johnson.
[984] _Yet I, A dull and_] _Yet I, a_ Seymour conj.
[985] _Yet I, A dull ... can say_] _Yet I say_ Pope, giving the omitted
words in the margin.
[986] _muddy-mettled_] Hyphened in Ff.
[987] _John-a-dreams_] _John a-deames_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _Jo
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