W As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; X To fhew yourself * your father's fon indeed Laer. To cut his throat i'th' church. King. No place, indeed, should murder fanctuarife, The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together, a Or with a little fhuffling, you may choose your father. u Qu's, indeed your father's fon. x The 1st and 2d q. and P. read, Spend-thrift's figh; W. reads spend-tbrift's fign; alluding to a spendthrift's figning bonds and mortgages for prefent relief, who in fo doing brings greater diftreffes on himself in the end. of the fword is the propofal of Laertes ; but let us fuppofe it to be the king's propofal in the paffage; then we have the king advifing Laertes to choose an envenomed fword out of the number that were to be produced to the combatants; but how is he to know which was en y So the qu's and C. All the reft venomed (fuppofing any of them were) read, on your beads. and which not, or who is fuppofed to envenom the fword? If he had advised Laertes to poifon his fword after he had chofen it, he would speak, fenfe; other wife nonfenfe. a The qu's read pace. Latr. Laer. I will do 't; And for the purpose I'll anoint my fword: I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal, that but a dip a knife in it, King. Let's further think of this; Weigh, what convenience both of time and means And that our drift look through our bad performance, h I hav't-When in your motion you are hot and dry, (As make you bouts more violent to that end) 1 m And that he calls for drink, I'll have " prepar'd him n If he by chance escape your venom'd⚫ tuck, Our purpofe may hold there-P but ftay, what noife? SCENE X. Enter Queen. How now, fweet queen? Queen. One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So faft they follow. Your fifter's drown'd, Laertes, Queen. There is a willow grows afcaunt the brook, W But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them ;) a t All but the qu's read boar; if q, borry. So the qu's and C. With the willow fhe made a garland of flowers, i. e. the willow was the frame of the garland into which the flowers were ftuck. But the fo's and all the reft read, There with fantaftic garlands did she came, &c. w The 4th f. reads gave. x After name, R. and W. infert ra. y The 1st and 2d qu's read, But our cull-cold maids, &c. the 3d reads cufcold. z C. Then for There. a The ft q. crquet. Clambring Clambring to hang, an envious fliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself d Fell in the weeping brook; her cloaths fpread wide, Or like a creature native, and f indued Unto that element; but long it could not be, h i Laer. Too much of water haft thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet It is our trick: Nature her custom holds, Let fhame say what it will. When these are gone, I have a fpeech of fire, that fain would blaze The 2d q. reads fluer; fo does S. but omits giving the reading of the 3d, fhiver. c The fo's and R. the for her. d The 4th f. and R. read bear. e So the qu's; all the reft read tunes. But the word tunes gives an uncertain notion of what the fung; the word lauds, i. e. hymns or pfalms, fixes the idea of the kind of mufic fhe entertained herself with just before she died. The 2d, 3d and 4th fo's, and R. read deduced. g Firft f. ber for their. [Exit. h Second and 3d qu's, wench. i Instead of lay the ift f. reads buy; the other fo's by. k P. alters Is fhe drown'd? to She is drown'd! followed by the editors after him. 1 The qu's read a fpeech a fire, which may mean a Speech on fire, i. e. fet on fire. m The aft f. reads doubts it. |