Thus confcience does make cowards" of us all; Oph. Good my lord, you a now How does your honour for this many a day? Oph. My lord, I have remembrances of yours, d Ham. No, not I; I never gave you ought, Oph. My honour'd lord, you know right well you did; And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd, u The words in italic are omitted in the qu's. a The qu's and 1ft f. read orizons ; the 2d, 3d and 4th fo's read borizons z w The qu's fpell this word, biew; T. H. W. and J. read orifons; but the the 1st and 2d fo's, bew. × First and 2d qu's, fickled. So the qu's. All the reft read pitb. Pitch feems to be Shakespeare's word; he intends to give us the idea of a man pitching a javelin at a mark, but which, being turned out of its courfe, miffes doing execution. right word is certainly oraisons (the French for prayers) as R. and P. read. d So the qu's and C. No, no, I never, &c. z Inftead of awry the fo's, R. and C. No, I never, &c. read away. The fo's and R, e The fo's, R. P. and H. read, I know, &c. f As f As made these things more rich; their perfume loft, Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. - Ham. Ha, ha! are you honeft? Oph. My lord-- Ham. Are you fair? Oph. What means your lordship? Ham. That if you be honeft and fair, your honefty fhould admit no difcourfe to your beauty. Oph. Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than b with honefty? Ham. Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will fooner transform honefty from what it is, to a bawd; than the force of honefty can tranflate beauty into his likeness. This was fometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once. Oph. Indeed, my lord, you made me believe fo. Ham. You fhould not have believed me: for virtue can So the qu's. The 1ft, 2d and 3d you should admit, &c. 7. thinks the fo's read, true reading to be, You should admit your As made the things more rich, then perfume bonefly to no difcourfe, &c. But the fenfe left. The 4th reads, As made the things more rich, than perfume left. then will be the very fame with that of the fo's. h The fo's, your for with. iSo the 1st and 2d qu's, the fo's and R. and the reft (except that C. reads R. The 3d q. reads to bis. P. alters their for that) read it, into its; and is followed by the reft. As made the things more rich; that per- S. gives another reading, viz. in bis. fume loft, &c. The 3d and 4th fo's, R. and P, So the fo's, R. and C. The reft, read, fometimes. not not fo 1 evacuate our old ftock, but we fhall relifh of it. I loved you not. Oph. I was the more deceived. Ham. Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a Breeder of finners? I am myfelf indifferent honeft; but yet I could accufe me of fuch things, that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them fhape, or time to act them in. What fhould fuch fellows as I do crawling between P earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, believe none of us, Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? Oph. At home, my lord. Ham. Let the doors be fhut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in 's own house. Oph. Oh help him, you sweet heav'ns! The 1ft q. reads euocutat; the 2d, euacuat; the 3d, evacuate; the 1 f. innoculate; the 2d and 3d, inoculate; the 4th, inocuake; R. and P. innoculate; all the reft, inoculate. S. neglects give ing the reading of the 3d quarto 1637 (which he has) which feems to be the true one, viz, evacuate. m R. reads, I did love you once. n The qu's fpell this, nunry. • What is the meaning of thoughts to put them in? A word is dropt out. We should read,-thoughts to put them in name. This was the progrefs. The offences are first conceived and named, then projected to be put in act, then Farewel. executed. W. In answer to this, fee Heath's Revifal, p. 537 But a few words will explain this matter; ift, than I have thoughts to put them in, here the offences are put into the thoughts, or conceived; 2dly, imagination to give them shape, that is, the contrivance how, or in what manner they shall be perpetrated; laftly, time to act them in, which needs no explanation. P The fo's, and all but the qu's and C, read, beaven and earth. 9 The fo's, R. and C. read, We are arrant kraves all, &c. way. The fo's, instead of where, read Ham. t $ Ham. If thou doft marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as fnow, thou fhalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery; faremarry, marry a fool; for wife men know well enough what monfters you make of them, To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewel, wel: or, if thou wilt needs a X Ham. I have heard of your paintings well enough: God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble; and you lifp; you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonnefs f ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad, I fay, we will have no more i marriages. Thofe that are married already, all but one, fhall live; the reft fhall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go, [Exit Hamlet. Oph. O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! • Second q. plage. The 1st and 2d qu's read, You gig • First and 2d qu's, yce. So S. but and amble; the 3d q. gig and amble, gives not the reading of 3d, ice. u The fo's and R. read, Get thee to a nunnery. Go-farezvel. omitting You (of which omiffion S. takes no notice) the fo's read, You gidge, you amble; R. and all the reft read, w The fo's and R. read, O beavenly You jig, you amèle. pervers, &c. * The ft f. reads pratlings; 2d, 3d and 4th, and R. pratling; all after, painting; except C, who reads pabitings with quis. y The qu's omit too. z Fo's, bas. a The fo's and R. read pace, instead of face. d The qu's read lift, So the qu's. The fo's and the reft omit you and infert and. f All but the qu's infert your before ignorance. The 2d, 3d and 4th fo's, R. P. and H. omit to. h First and ad qu's, mo; zd, mee. i The 1st and 2d qu's read marrige. b First and 2d qu's, your felfes; fo's, S. takes no notice of the reading of the your felf. 3d q. marriages. The The courtier's, 'foldier's, eye, tongue, fword; T' have seen what I have feen, fee what I fee ". SCENE III. Enter King and Polonius. King. Love! his affections do not that way tend, Nor what he spake, tho' it lack'd form a little, |