or sixteen lines, which I would set down, and insert in't? could you not? 1 PLAY. Ay, my lord. HAM. Very well.-Follow that lord; and look you mock him not. [Exit Player.] My good friends, [To Ros. and GUIL.] I'll leave you till night you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and Guildenstern. HAM. Ay, so, God be wi' you:*-Now I am alone. buy've, O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous, (59) that this player here, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting, (61) What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Yet I, (64) A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? defeat was made] Overthrow. See M. ado, &c. IV. 1. Leon. 1623, 32. buy to, 4tos. As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Why, I should take it for it cannot be, 1623, 32, lain! O vengeance! * a Who? What an ass am I? ay sure, this is most brave; A scullion! Fye upon't! foh! About my brains? I have heard, C That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,(65) a [Exit. kindless] Unnatural. See "kin and kind," I. 2. Haml. babout my brains] Wits to work. Mr. Steevens points out the phrase in Heywood's Iron age, 1632. c blench] Shrink, start aside. See M. for M. V. 5. Duke, and Wint. T. I. 2. Camil. more relative than this] Directly applicable. ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in the Castle. Enter King, Queen, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN. KING. And can you, by no drift of circumstance Get from him, why he puts on this confusion; Grating so harshly all his days of quiet With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? Ros. He does confess, he feels himself distracted; But from what cause he will by no means speak. GUIL. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded; But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. QUEEN. Did he receive you well? Ros. Most like a gentleman. GUIL. But with much forcing of his disposition. Ros. Niggard of question; but, of our demands, Most free in his reply. QUEEN. To any pastime ? a Did you assay him " Ros. Madam, it so fell out, that certain players drift of circumstance] Introduction and shaping of topics and facts. The quartos read conference. b forward] Disposed, inclinable. e niggard of question, &c.] Rarely started any topic, but to our questions most frank and open in answering. d assay him to] Try his disposition towards. See II. 1. Polon, and 2 Volt. We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him; 'Tis most true: POL. KING. With all my heart; and it doth much content me To hear him so inclin'd. Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, KING. [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and Guildenstern. Sweet Gertrude, leave us too: For we have closely (sent for Hamlet hither; That he, as 'twere by accident, may here* heere 4tos. Affront Ophelia : (2) there, 1623, 32. Her father, and myself (lawful espials,") QUEEN. I shall obey you: And, for your part, Ophelia, I do wish, That your good beauties be the happy cause Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope, your virtues To both your honors. OPH. Madam, I wish it may. [Exit Queen. "Was not o'er-raught on the way] Reached or overtook. the samyn misfortoun me over-raucht ?" Gaw. Dougl. Æn. STEEVENS. lawful espials] Spies justifiably inquisitive. See 1 H. VI. Master Gunner, I. 4. POL. Ophelia, walk you here: Gracious, so please you, We will bestow ourselves: Read on this book; That show of such an exercise may colour Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,- visage, a And pious action, we do sugar* o'er KING. [Aside. POL. I hear him coming; let's withdraw, my lord.. [Exeunt King and POLONIUS. Enter HAMLET. HAM. To be, or not to be, that is the question: ⚫ too much proved] Found by too frequent experience. More ugly to the thing that helps it, Than is my deed to my most painted word.] JOHNSON. To is, in comparison, with. See All's W. III. 5, Hel. Painted is falsely coloured. • So 4tos. Surge. 1623, 32. |