Title: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]
Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: William George Clark
William Aldis Wright
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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.
| 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 |
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.[Pg viii] 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:
In that of 1604:
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 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[Pg x] 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[Pg xi] 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[Pg xii] 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 import[Pg xiii]ant 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[Pg xiv] 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,
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 refer[Pg xvi]ence 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[Pg xvii] 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.
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.
| 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, | courtiers. |
| Cornelius, | |
| Rosencrantz, | |
| 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.
THE TRAGEDY OF
HAMLET
PRINCE OF DENMARK.
Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo.[1]
Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
Enter Ghost.
[Exit Ghost.
Re-enter Ghost.
Flourish. Enter the King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand, Cornelius, Lords, and Attendants.[106]
[Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.
[Flourish. Exeunt all but Hamlet.
Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.
[Exeunt all but Hamlet.
Enter Laertes and Ophelia.[268]
Enter Polonius.[301]
Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.
[A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within.[357]
Enter Ghost.
[Ghost beckons Hamlet.
[Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.[414]
Enter Ghost and Hamlet.[417]
Enter Horatio and Marcellus.[493]
[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.
[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).
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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).
[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.
[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.
Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.[560]
Enter Ophelia.[611]
Flourish. Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Attendants.[639]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants.[660]
Enter Polonius.
[Exit Polonius.[667]
Re-enter Polonius, with Voltimand and Cornelius.
[Exeunt King, Queen, and Attendants.
Enter Hamlet, reading.[734]
Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[771]
[Flourish of trumpets within.
Enter Polonius.
Enter four or five Players.
[Exit Polonius with all the Players but the First.[961]
[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.
[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).
[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.
[696] vile] Qq F4. vilde F1 F2 F3.
beautified] that beatify'd Capell, reading as verse.
vile] Qq F4. vilde F1 F2 F3.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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. John-a-droynes Becket, after Steevens, conj.
[988] coward?... this?] Pointed as in Ff, and Q6 substantially. Stops in Qq. Commas in Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[989] Ha!] As a separate line by Steevens (1793). It begins line 552 in Qq Ff (Hah, Q2 Q3. Hah! Q4 Q5. Hah? Q6. Ha? Ff), and ends line 550 in Collier. Omitted by Pope.
[990] 'Swounds ... it:] Qq (it, Q6). Why I ... it: F1 F2. Why should I take it? F3 F4. Yet I should take it— Pope.
[991] oppression] transgression Collier MS. aggression Singer conj. (withdrawn).
[992] have] a (Q1) Q2 Q3.
[993] offal: bloody,] offall: bloudy, Q6. offall, bloody, Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. offall, bloudy: a Ff (bloody: F3 F4).
[994] Remorseless ... villain!] Omitted by Jennens.
[995] O, vengeance!] Omitted in Qq.
[996] Why,] Why Qq. Who? Ff. om. Knight.
This] Qq. I sure, this Ff.
[997] a dear father murder'd] a dear father murther'd Capell. a deere murthered Q2 Q3. a deere father murthered Q4 Q5. a deare father murthered Q6. the deere murthered Ff (dear F3 F4).
[998] And fall ... play] Arranged as in Capell. Three lines, ending foh ... heard ... play, in Qq. Three lines, ending drab, ... braine ... play, in Ff. Four lines, ending drab, ... foh!... heard, ... play, in Johnson.
[999] drab, A scullion] Ff. drabbe; a stallyon Q2 Q3. drabbe; a stallion Q4. drabbe; stallion Q5. drabbe, stallion Q6. drab—A stallion Pope. drab—A cullion Theobald.
[1000] About, my brain!] About my braine, (Q1). About my braine. Ff (brain. F3 F4). About my braines; Q2 Q3. About my braines, Q4 Q5 Q6. about my brain— Pope (ed. 1). about my brain!— Pope (ed. 2). about, my brain!— Theobald. about 't my brains! Hunter conj. See note (XV).
Hum] Qq. om. Ff.
I have] I've Pope.
[1001] sitting] om. Pope.
[1002] struck so to] F3 F4. strooke so to Qq F1 F2. struck unto Rowe (ed. 2).
[1003] I'll have these players] I'll observe his looks, Pope (ed. 1), corrected in ed. 2.
[1004] tent] Qq F1. rent F2 F3 F4.
he but] Ff. a doe Qq. he do Q (1676) and Capell.
blench] blink Taylor conj. MS. bleach Anon. conj.
[1005] The] This Johnson.
[1006] be the devil] F3 F4. be the divell (Q1) F1 F2. be a deale Q2 Q3. be a divell Q4 Q5 Q6.
and the devil] and the deale Q2 Q3.
Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.[1007]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
[Exeunt King and Polonius.
Enter Hamlet.[1041]
Re-enter King and Polonius.
Enter Hamlet and Players.[1127]
[Exeunt Players.
Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.[1156]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1160]
Enter Horatio.[1161]
Danish march. A flourish. Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and other Lords attendant, with the Guard carrying torches.[1189]
[Lying down at Ophelia's feet.
Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters.
Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love.[1217]
[Exeunt.
Enter Prologue.[1219]
Enter two Players, King and Queen.[1226]
Enter Lucianus.[1283]
[Pours the poison into the sleeper's ear.[1296]
[Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.[1300]
Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1315]
Re-enter Players with recorders.[1339]
Enter Polonius.[1354]
[Exeunt all but Hamlet.[1368]
Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.[1379]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1398]
Enter Polonius.
[Exit Polonius.
Enter Hamlet.
Enter Queen and Polonius.[1438]
[Polonius hides behind the arras.
Enter Hamlet.[1447]
[Makes a pass through the arras.[1459]
[Lifts up the arras and discovers Polonius.
Enter Ghost.[1503]
[Exit Ghost.
[Pointing to Polonius.[1547]
[Exeunt severally; Hamlet dragging in Polonius.[1570]
[1007] Act iii. Scene i.] Q (1676) and Rowe. Omitted in Ff.
A room in the castle] Malone. The Palace. Rowe. Another room in the same. Capell.
Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] Capell. Rosencraus, Guyldensterne, Lords. Qq. Rosincrance, Guildenstern, and Lords. F1. Rosincros, Guildenstar, and Lords. F2 F3 F4 (Guildenstare, F4).
[1008] circumstance] Ff. conference Qq.
[1009] confusion] confesion Rowe (ed. 2). confession Pope (in margin).
[1010] he will] a will Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1011] Nor ... state.] Continued to Ros. by Jennens.
[1012] state] estate Q6.
[1013] Niggard of ... of our ... Most free] Unapt to ... of our ... Most free Q (1676). Most free of ... to our ... Niggard Hanmer. Most free of ... of our ... Niggard Warburton. Niggard of ... to our ... Most free Collier MS.
[1014] Did ... pastime?] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[1015] assay] invite Q (1676).
[1016] To] unto Hanmer.
[1017] so] om. Johnson.
[1018] o'er-raught] ore-raught Qq. ore-wrought F1 F2. o're-took F3 F4. o'er-rode Warburton.
[1019] about] Ff. heere about Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. here about Q6.
[1020] With ... delights.] Arranged as by Pope. Five lines ending hart, ... me, ... inclin'd ... edge, ... delights, in Qq. Four lines, ending me ... gentlemen, ... on ... delights, in Ff.
[1021] drive ... on to] drive ... on To Ff. drive ... into Qq. urge him to Q (1676).
[1023] hither] Ff Q6. hether The rest.
[1024] he] we Jennens.
here] Q6. heere Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. there Ff.
[1025] here Affront Ophelia] meet Ophelia here Q (1676).
[1026] Affront ... espials,] As in Johnson. One line in Ff. One line, ending myself, in Qq.
[1027] lawful espials] Omitted in Qq.
[1028] Will] Ff. Wee'le Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. Wee'll Q6.]
unseen] and unseen Q (1676).
[1029] frankly] om. Q (1676).
[1030] no] Qq. no, F4. no. F1 F2 F3.
[1031] for your] Q2 Q3 Ff. for my Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1032] beauties ... virtues] beauty ... virtue S. Walker conj.
[1033] shall] om. Pope.
[1034] Will] May Pope.
[Exit Queen.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
[1035] please you] Qq. please ye Ff.
[1036] [To Ophelia.] To Oph. Johnson.
[1037] loneliness] lowlines Q2 Q3. lowlinesse Q4 Q5.
to blame] Q6 F3 F4. too blame The rest.
[1038] sugar] Qq. surge Ff.
[1039] [Aside] First marked by Pope.
'tis too] Qq. 'tis Ff. it is but too Hanmer.
[1040] Pol.] Erased in Collier MS. See note (II).
let's] om. Qq.
[Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt. Ff. om. Qq. Exeunt all but Ophelia. Rowe.
[1041] Scene ii. Pope.
Enter Hamlet.] As in Ff. After burthen, line 54, in Qq. Enter Hamlet, with a book in his hand. Hunter conj. He would transfer the soliloquy to II. 2. 169.
[1042] slings] sling Campbell. stings Fleischer (S. Walker conj.)
slings and arrows] stings and harrows Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752). stings and horrors Anon. MS.
[1043] a sea of] a siege of Theobald conj. (withdrawn). th' assay of or a 'say of Theobald conj. assailing Hanmer conj. assail of Warburton. assays of Keightley conj. the seat of Bailey conj. assay of Brae conj.
[1044] opposing] a poniard or deposing Bailey conj.
them?] Pope. them, Q2 Q3. them: Q4 Q5 Ff Q6. om. S. Evans conj.
[1045] die: to sleep; No] die to sleepe No Qq (dye Q6). dye, to sleepe No F1. dye, to sleepe: No F2. dye, to sleep No F3 F4. die,—to sleep—No Pope.
[1046] more;] F1 Q6. more, Q2 Q3. more: Q4 Q5 F2 F3 F4. more? Capell.
say we end] straightway end Bailey conj.
[1047] to,] to; Qq. too? F1. to? F2 F3. {to.} F4.
[1048] wish'd. To] Ff. wisht to Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. wisht, to Q6.
[1049] we have] he have F2. he hath F3 F4.
shuffled] shuffel'd F1 F2.
coil] spoil Mason conj. vail or clay Elze conj.
[1050] Must ... life;] As three lines ending pause ... calamity ... life; S. Walker conj.
[1051] whips ... time] quips ... time Grey conj. whips ... th' time Warburton conj. whips ... tyrants or quips ... title Johnson conj. whips ... o' the times Steevens conj. scorns of weapon'd time Becket conj. scorns of whiphand time Id. conj. (withdrawn).
[1052] proud] Q5 Q6. proude Q2 Q3 Q4. poore F1 F2. poor F3 F4.
[1053] pangs] pang Pope.
despised love, the] despiz'd love, the Q2 Q3. office, and the Q4 Q5. dispriz'd love, the Ff. despised love, and the Q6. mispriz'd love, the Collier MS. (erased). See note (II).
[1054] When he] When Q4 Q5. When as Q6.
quietus] quietas Q2 Q3 Q4.
[1055] who would fardels] who'd these fardels Grant White (S. Walker conj.)
fardels] Qq. these fardles Ff.
[1056] grunt] groan Q (1676) and Pope.
[1057] The undiscover'd] Qq. The undiscovered Ff. That undiscover'd Pope. In the undiscover'd Keightley.
bourn] Capell. bourne Pope. borne Qq F1 F2. born F3 F4.
[1058] returns, puzzles] returnes. Puzels F1.
[1059] of us all] (Q1) Ff. om. Qq.
[1060] hue] F3 F4. hiew Qq. hew F1 F2.
[1061] sicklied] Ff Q6. sickled The rest.
[1063] awry] Qq. away Ff.
[1064] [Seeing Oph. Rowe.
[1065] Ophelia!] Ophelia? Ff. Ophelia, Qq.
orisons] Theobald. orizons Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 F1. horizons F2 F3 F4. orizons? Q6. oraisons Rowe.
[1066] remember'd.] remembred? Q6.
[1067] you: well, well, well.] Ff. you well. Q2 Q3. you: well. Q4 Q5. you, well. Q6.
[1068] long] om. Q (1676). much Pope.
[1069] No, not I] Qq. No, no Ff. No Pope.
[1070] No ... aught.] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Qq Ff.
[1071] you know] Qq. I know Ff.
[1072] the things] Ff. these things Qq.
rich: their perfume lost,] Q4 Q5 Q6. rich, their perfume lost, Q2 Q3. rich, then perfume left: F1 F2 F3. rich, than perfume left: F4. rich: that perfume lost, Rowe.
[1073] lord?] Capell. lord. Qq Ff. lord— Rowe.
[1074] your honesty] Ff. you Qq.
[1075] your honesty ... beauty.] you should admit your honesty to no discourse with your beauty. Johnson conj.
[1076] commerce] Q5 Q6 F4. comerse Q2 Q3. comerce Q4 F1 F2 F3. converse Anon. conj.
[1077] with] Qq. your Ff.
[1078] into] in Q5 to Q6.
his] its Pope.
[1079] sometime] sometimes F3 F4.
[1080] inoculate] innocculate F1. inocculate F2 F3. inocualte F4. euocutat Q2 Q3. euacuat Q4. euacuate Q5. evacuate Q6.
[1081] I loved you not.] I did love you once. Rowe (ed. 2).
[1082] to] Ff. om. Qq.
[1083] at my beck] on my back Long MS. at my back Collier MS.
[1084] in, imagination to] Qq. in imagination, to Ff. in name, imagination to Warburton.
[1085] heaven and earth] (Q1) Ff. earth and heaven Qq.
[1086] all] (Q1) Ff. om. Qq.
[1087] Let ... house.] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending him, in Qq.
[1088] no where] Qq. no way Ff.
[1089] plague] plage Q4.
[1090] go] Ff. om. Qq.
[1091] too] Ff Q6. to The rest.
[1092] O] Ff. om. Qq.
[1093] paintings] (Q1) Qq. pratlings F1. pratling F2 F3 F4. painting Pope.
too] Ff. om. Qq.
[1094] God] Nature Q (1676).
hath] Qq. has Ff.
face] (Q1) Qq. pace Ff.
yourselves] your selves Q5 Q6. your selfes Q2 Q3 Q4. your selfe F1 F2. your self F3 F4.
[1095] you jig] gig Q6. fig (Q1).
jig] Q (1676). gig Qq. gidge Ff.
you amble] Ff. and amble Qq.
lisp,] Q (1676) F4. lispe, F1 F2 F3. list Qq.
and nick-name] Ff. you nickname Qq.
[1096] God's] Heavens Q (1676).
[1097] wantonness your ignorance] ignorance your wantonness Anon. conj.
your ignorance] (Q1) Ff. ignorance Qq.
[1098] Go to] Q5. Goe to Q2 Q3 Q4. Go too F1 Q6. Goe F2. Go F3 F4.
[1099] no more marriages] (Q1) Ff. no mo marriage Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. no moe marriages Q6.
[1100] live] om. F2 F3 F4.
[1101] [Exit.] Qq. Exit Hamlet. Ff.
[1102] o'erthrown] othrowne Q4 Q5.
[1103] soldier's, scholar's] scholar's, soldier's Hanmer and Staunton, from (Q1).
scholar's,] schollers, Q2 Q3 Q4. scholers, Q5. scholars, Q6. scholiers: F1. schollers? F2. schollars? F3. scholars! F4. om. Jennens.
[1104] expectancy] F3 F4. expectansie F1 F2. expectation Qq.
[1105] And I] Qq. Have I F1 F2. I am F3 F4.
[1106] music] musickt Q2 Q3 Q4.
vows,] Pointed as by Hanmer. vowes; Qq. vowes: or vows: Ff.
[1107] that noble] Ff. what noble Qq.
[1108] jangled, out of tune] Capell. jangled out of time, Qq. jangled out of tune, Ff.
[1109] unmatch'd] unmarcht Q5. unsnatch'd Jennens.
form] forme Qq F1. fortune F2 F3 F4.
feature] Ff. stature Qq. statute Q (1695).
[1111] Scene iii. Pope.
Love!] Q6. Love, Q2 Q3. Love: Q4 Q5. Love? Ff.
[1112] Nor] For Q6.
[1113] There's something] Something's Pope.
soul] soule? F1.
[1114] for to] Qq. to F1 F2. how to F3 F4.
[1115] it] om. Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1116] something-settled] Hyphened by Warburton. sometime-settled Daniel conj.
[1117] Whereon ... on't?] Arranged as in Ff. Three lines, ending beating ... himselfe ... on't? in Qq.
[1118] brains] F3 F4. braines Qq F1 F2. brain Collier MS. brain's Grant White.
[1119] but ... grief] Arranged as in Ff. One line in Q2 Q3.
[1120] do I] I doe Q6.
[1121] his grief] Q2 Q3. it Q4 Q5 Q6, reading But ... of it as one line. this greefe Ff.
[1122] [Enter Ophelia. Elze.
[1123] [Exit Ophelia. Elze.
[1124] grief] griefe Qq. greefes F1. griefes F2. griefs F3 F4.
[1125] placed, so please you] plac'd so, please you F1 F2.
[1126] unwatch'd] Ff. unmatcht Qq.
[1127] Scene ii.] Capell. Scene iv. Pope. om. Ff.
A hall....] A Hall, in the same, fitted as for a Play. Capell.
and Players.] and the Players. (Q1). and three of the Players. Qq. and two or three of the Players. Ff.
[1128] pronounced] pronoun'd Q2 Q3.
[1129] trippingly on] smoothly from Q (1676).
[1130] your players] (Q1) Ff. our players Qq.
lief] Steevens (1793). live Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 F1 F2. lieve Q6 F3 F4.
spoke] Qq. had spoke Ff.
[1131] Nor] And Pope.
much with your] Qq. much your Ff. much, your Caldecott.
[1132] whirlwind of your passion] Qq. the whirle-winde of passion Ff. whirlwind of passion Collier. the whirlwind of your passion Staunton.
[1133] hear] Qq. see Ff.
robustious] robustous Q (1676) F4.
[1134] periwig-pated] Q (1676). perwig-pated Qq. Pery-wig-pated F1. Pery-wig-parted F2. Perriwig-parted F3 F4.
to tatters] Ff. to totters Qq. om. Q (1676).
[1135] split] Ff. spleet Qq.
[1136] would] (Q1) Qq. could Ff.
[1137] First Play.] 1. P. Capell. Player. or Play. Qq Ff.
[1138] suit] Hanmer. sute Qq F1 F3 F4. sure F2.
[1139] o'erstep] ore-steppe Q2 Q3 Q4. ore-step Q5 Q6. ore-stop Ff. ore-top Long MS.
[1140] overdone] ore-doone Q2 Q3 Q4. ore-done Q5 Q6.
[1141] at the first] at first Q5 Q6.
[1142] her own feature] her feature Qq.
scorn] sin Bailey conj.
[1143] the very] every Mason conj.
age] face or page Johnson conj. eye Taylor conj. MS.
the very age] the visage Bailey conj.
[1145] though it make] though it makes Qq.
[1146] the censure] in the censure Long MS.
the which one] Ff. which one Qq. one of which Hanmer.
[1147] o'erweigh] ore-weigh Qq. o're-way F1. ore-sway F2 F3 F4.
[1148] praise] Ff Q6. praysd Q2 Q3 Q4. praisd Q5.
[1149] neither ... nor man,] Put within brackets, as an interpolation, by Warburton.
[1150] accent of Christians] accent of Christian Pope.
nor the] or the Rowe.
[1151] nor man] Qq. Nor Turke (Q1). or Norman Ff. nor Mussulman Farmer conj. or man Pope. or Turk Grant White.
[1152] men] them Rann (Theobald conj. withdrawn). the men Farmer conj.
[1153] sir] Ff. om. Qq.
[1154] themselves] of themselves F3 F4.
[1155] too] to Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1156] [Exeunt Players.] F2 F3 F4. Exit Players. F1. Omitted in Qq.
Enter ... Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.] As in Ff. Enter ... Guyldensterne, & Rosencrans. Qq (after work? line 42).
[1157] Scene iv.] Warburton.
[1158] too] Ff Q6. to The rest.
[1159] [Exit Polonius.] Ff. om. Qq.
[1160] Ros. Guil.] Both. Ff. Ros. Qq.
We will] Ff. I Qq.
[Exeunt....] Exeunt they two. Q2 Q3. Exeunt those two. Q4 Q5 Q6. Exeunt. Ff.
[1161] Scene v. Pope.
What ho!] What hoe, Q6. What hoa, F1 F2 F3. What ho, F4. What howe, Q2 Q3. What how, Q4 Q5.
Enter Horatio.] As in Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. After line 46 in Ff. Omitted in Q6.
[1162] sweet lord] my lord Q (1676).
[1163] coped] copt Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. cop't Q6. coap'd Ff. met Q (1676).
[1164] lord,—] lord— Rowe. lord. Qq Ff.
[1165] no revenue hast] hast no revenue Q (1676).
[1166] thee?] Q6. thee, Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. thee. Ff.
Why] om. Pope.
[1167] lick] Q4 Q5. licke Q2 Q3 Q6. like Ff.
absurd] obsurd Q4 Q5.
[1169] fawning.] fawning: Q6. fauning; Q2 Q3. fauning, Q4. fawning, Q5. faining. F1 F2 F3. feigning. F4.
hear?] heare? Q6. heare, or hear, The rest.
[1170] dear] clear Johnson conj.
her] Qq. my Ff.
[1171] distinguish, ... Hath] Ff. distinguish her election, S'hath Qq (Shath Q4 Q5. Sh'ath Q6).
[1172] fortune's] fortune F3 F4.
[1173] Hast] Qq. Hath Ff.
[1174] commingled] co-mingled Ff. comedled Qq. commedled Q (1676, 1683, 1695). commended Q (1703). comêl'd Capell conj.
[1175] stop] stops Q (1676).
[1176] of heart] of hearts Q (1676).
[1177] thee of] Qq. thee, of Ff.
[1178] a-foot] on foot Q6.
[1179] very] om. F2 F3 F4.
thy] Qq. my Ff.
[1180] my] Qq. mine Ff.
his occulted] then his hidden Q (1676). his occult Rowe (ed. 2).
[1181] unkennel] discover Q (1676).
[1182] stithy] Qq. stythe F1. styth F2 F3 F4. smithy Theobald.
heedful] Q(1676) F4. heedfull Qq. needfull F1 F2 F3.
[1183] face,] face? F2.
[1184] judgements] judgement F2.
[1185] In] Qq. To Ff.
[1186] he] Ff. a Qq.
[1187] detecting] Ff. detected Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. detection Q6.
[1188] Scene vi. Pope. Scene v. Warburton.
They are] They're Pope.
[1189] Danish march. A flourish. Enter ... the Guard ... torches.] Capell, substantially. Enter ... his Guard ... torches. Danish March. Sound a Flourish. Ff (after line 84). Enter Trumpets and Kettle Drummes, King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia. Qq (after line 84).
[1190] our] my F3 F4.
[1191] Excellent ... say?] Prose in Ff. Irregular lines in Qq.
[1192] dish: I] dish I Q (1676).
[1193] mine now. My lord,] Johnson. mine now my lord. Qq. mine. Now my lord, Ff.
[To Polonius] Rowe.
[1194] i' the] in the Q6.
[1195] did I] Qq. I did Ff.
[1196] What] Qq. And what Ff.
[1197] Capitol] F1 F4. Capitall Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. Capitoll F2 Q6 F3.
[1198] stay] wait Q (1676).
patience] pleasure Johnson conj. patents Becket conj.
[1199] dear] deere Q2 Q3. deare Q4 Q5 Q6. good Ff.
[1200] metal] metall Q6. mettle The rest.
[1202] [Lying....] Rowe. Seating himself at Ophelia's feet. Capell (after line 103).
[1203] Ham. I mean ... lord.] Omitted in Qq.
[1204] upon] in Capell.
[1205] country] contrary (Q1). contray Singer (ed. 1), a misprint.
matters] manners Johnson conj.
[1206] maids'] maydes or maids Qq Ff. a maid's Rowe.
[1207] lord.] Qq. lord? Ff.
[1208] O God,] om. Q (1676). Oh! Johnson.
[1209] within 's] Qq Ff. within these Pope.
[1210] twice] om. Hanmer. quite Ingleby conj.
[1211] devil] deule Q2 Q3.
[1212] for ... sables] (Q1) Qq Ff. for ... ermyn Hanmer. 'fore ... sable Warburton. for ... sabell Anon. conj. (The Critic, 1854, p. 317).
[1213] have] not have Keightley. leave Lloyd conj. leave him Anon. conj. have ne'er Anon. conj.
a suit] no suit Becket conj.
[1214] by'r lady] by'r-lady F4. byr-lady F1. ber Lady Q2 Q3 Q4 Q6. ber Ladie Q5. berlady F2 F3. om. Q (1676).
[1215] he ... he] Ff. a ... a Qq.
[1216] Hautboys ... love.] Ff, substantially. The Trumpets sounds. Dumbe show followes. Enter a King and a Queene, the Queene embracing him, and he her, he takes her vp, and declines his head vpon her necke, he lyes him downe vppon a bancke of flowers, she seeing him asleepe, leaues him: anon come in an other man, takes off his crowne, kisses it, pours poyson in the sleepers eares, and leaues him: the Queene returnes, finds the King dead, makes passionate action, the poysner with some three or foure come in againe, seeme to condole with her, the dead body is carried away, the poysner wooes the Queene with gifts, shee seemes harsh awhile, but in the end accepts loue. Qq ( ... anon comes ... comes in ... Q4 Q5 Q6). Theobald substitutes 'a Duke and a Dutchess, with regal coronets,' for 'a King and a Queen'.
and a] and Ff.
and he her] om. Ff.
exit.] exits. Ff.
[Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.
[During the dumb show King and Queen whisper confidentially to each other and so do not see it. Halliwell conj.
[1217] Scene vii. Pope. Scene vi. Warburton.
[1218] Marry] om. Q(1676).
this is] Ff. this Q2 Q3. tis Q4. it is Q5 Q6.
miching mallecho] Malone. myching Mallico (Q1). munching Mallico Qq. miching Malicho Ff. miching Malhechor Warburton. miching Malbecco Grey conj. munching Malicho Capell. mimicking Malbecco Farmer conj. mucho malhecho Keightley (Maginn conj.)
it] Qq. that Ff.
[1219] Belike] Be like F2.
play.] Qq. play? Ff.
Enter Prologue.] As in Theobald. After fellow, line 132, in Qq. After play, line 138, in Ff.
[1220] this fellow] Qq. these fellowes Ff.
[1221] counsel] Omitted in Qq.
[1222] he] Pope, a Qq. they Ff.
tell us] shew us Q (1676).
[1223] you'll] you will Qq.
not you] not Q (1676).
[1224] mark] make F2 F3 F4.
[1225] posy] posie Qq F4. poesie F1 F2 F3.
[1226] Enter ...] Enter King and Queen, Players. Pope. Enter King and Queene. Qq. Enter King and his Queene. F1 F2. Enter King, and Queen. F3 F4. Enter Duke, and Dutchess, Players. Theobald, from (Q1).
[1227] P. King.] Steevens (1778). King. Qq Ff.
[1228] Phœbus' ... Tellus'] Apostrophes inserted by Pope.
[1229] cart] carr Q (1676). car Rowe.
[1230] orbed] Ff. orb'd the Qq.
[1231] borrowed] Qq Ff. borrow'd Q (1676) and Capell.
[1232] times twelve thirties] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 F1. time, twelve thirties F2 F3 F4. twelve times thirty Q6. times twelve thirty Hanmer.
[1233] commutual in most] infolding them in Q (1676).
[1234] P. Queen.] Steevens (1778). Quee. or Que. Qq F2 F3. Queen. F4. Bap. or Bapt. F1.
[1237] holds] Ff. hold Qq.
[1238] In neither aught] In neither ought Ff. Eyther none, in neither ought Qq. 'Tis either none Pope. In neither: aught Hunter conj. Either in nought Anon. conj.
[1239] love] Lord Q2 Q3.
is, proof hath made] has been, proof makes Q (1676).
[1240] sized] ciz'd Q2 Q3 Q6. ciz'st Q4 Q5. siz'd F1. siz F2. fixt F3 F4. great Q (1676).
[1241] Where love ... there.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1242] littlest] Q6. litlest Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. smallest Q (1676).
[1243] operant] working Q (1676).
their functions] Qq. my functions Ff.
[1244] fair] fare Q4.
[1245] kind] Q6. kind, Q2 Q3 Q4_ Q5. kinde. F1. kind. F2 F3 F4. a kind Rowe (ed. 2).
[1246] thou—] Ff. thou. Qq.
[1247] kill'd] kill Theobald.
[1248] [Aside] Capell.
Wormwood, wormwood.] Ff. O wormewood, wormewood! (Q1). That's wormwood. Qq (in the margin).
[1249] P. Queen.] Bapt. Ff. om. Qq.
[1250] thrift] Trift F2.
[1251] husband dead] lord that's dead (Q1) Staunton.
[1252] you think] Pointed as in Qq. you. Think Ff.
[1253] but] and Q (1676).
[1254] like] Ff. the Qq.
fruit] fruits Q (1676) and Pope.
[1255] either] Q5 Q6. eyther, Q2 Q3. either, Q4. other Ff.
[1256] enactures] Q6. ennactures Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. ennactors F1. enactors F2 F3 F4.
[1257] joys] F4. joyes F1 F2 F3. joy Qq.
grieves F3 F4. greeves F1 F2. griefes Qq.
[1258] nor] and Pope.
'tis not] is it Q (1676).
[1259] lead fortune] fortune lead Pope. leads fortune Theobald.
else] om. Pope.
[1260] favourite] favourites F1.
[1261] hitherto] hither to F2.
[1262] friend,] Qq. friend: F1. friend? F2 F3 F4.
[1263] seasons him] sees in him Anon. conj.
[1264] So think] Think still Q (1676).
[1265] die thy thoughts] thy thoughts dye Q (1676).
[1266] to me give] Qq. to give me Ff. oh! give me Hanmer. do give me Seymour conj.
Nor ... give] Let earth not give me Anon. conj. (Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752).
[1267] To desperation ... scope!] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1268] An anchor's] Theobald. And anchors Qq. And anchors' Jennens. An anchoret's Anon, apud Rann conj.
cheer] chair Steevens conj.
[1269] once ... wife] (Q1) Ff. once I be a widdow, ever I be a wife Q2 Q3 Q4 Q6 (bee Q4. widow Q6). once I be a widdow, ever I be wife Q5. once I widow be, and then a wife Q (1676). once I be a widow, 'ere a wife Anon. MS.
[1270] Ham. If ... now!] Ham. If ... now. Qq (in the margin) Ff. Ham. If ... now— Pope. Ham. [to Oph.] If ... now,— Capell.
it now] her vow Elze (Collier MS.)
[1271] 'Tis ... awhile;] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
here] heare Q4 Q5 F2.
[1272] [Sleeps.] Ff (after brain). om. Qq. Lays him down. Capell.
[1273] betw 'en] betwixt Q4 Q5.
[Exit.] Ff. Exeunt. Qq. Exit Lady. (Q1). Exit Dutchess. Duke sleeps. Capell.
[1274] this] the F2 F3 F4.
[1275] doth protest] Qq. protests Ff.
[1276] i' the world] om. Q (1676).
[1277] how?] Ff Q6. how Q2Q3Q4Q5.
[1278] Gonzago] Gonzaga Johnson.
[1279] wife] wife's Theobald.
[1280] o'] Ff. a (Q1). of Qq.
[1281] that have] shall have Q4 Q5 Q6.
us not] not us Q (1676).
[1282] wince] (Q1) Steevens. winch Qq Ff.
unwrung] Q4 Q5 Q6 F3 F4 unwrong Q2 Q3. unrung F1F2.
[1283] Enter Lucianus.] Ff. After king, line 233, in Qq.
[1284] king] duke Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald).
[1285] as good as a] (Q1) Qq. a good Ff.
[1286] my] Ff. mine Qq.
[1287] better,] worse Q (1676 and Rowe).
[1288] must take your husbands.] Pope. must take your husband (Q1). mistake your husbands Qq. mistake husbands Ff. most of you take husbands Hanmer. must take husbands Long MS.
[1289] murderer] murther Ff.
[1290] pox,] Ff. om. Qq. a poxe (Q1.)
[1291] the ... revenge.] Printed as a quotation in two half lines, the first ending raven, by Steevens (1793).
[1292] Thoughts ... agreeing;] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[1293] Confederate](Q1) Ff. Considerat Q2 Q3 Q4. Considerate Q5 Q6.
else] and Q (1676) and Theobald.
[1294] ban] bane (Q1) Q6 F4.
infected] invected Q2 Q3.
[1295] Thy] The F4. Thou Pope.
[1296] usurp] F3 F4. usurpe F1 F2. usurps (Q1) Qq.
[Pours ... ear.] Capell, substantially. Powres the poyson in his eares. Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[1297] He] (Q1) Ff. A Qq.
for his] (Q1) Qq. for's F1 F3 F4. fors F2
[1298] name's] F1 Q6. names The rest.
written in very] Qq. writ in Ff.
[1299] Ham. What, ... fire] Ff. Ham. Frighted ... fires (Q1). Omitted in Qq.
[1300] Pol.] Qq. All. Ff. [Exeunt ...] Exeunt all but Ham. & Horatio. Qq. Exeunt. Manet Hamlet & Horatio. Ff (Manent F4).
[1301] Scene viii. Pope. Scene vii. Warburton.
stricken] (Q1) Hanmer. strooken Q2 Q3. stroken Q4 Q5. strucken Ff Q6.
[1302] hart] heart F2 F3.
[1303] while] whilst Q4 Q5. whilest Q6.
sleep:] sleepe? F2 F3 F4.
[1304] Thus] (Q1) Qq. So Ff.
[1305] two] Ff. om. Qq.
Provincial] Provencial Capell (Warton conj.) Provençal Warton conj.
[1306] razed] raz'd Qq. rac'd Ff. rack'd Rowe (ed. 2). rayed Pope. rais'd Jennens (Theobald conj.)
cry] city Q4 Q5 Q6.
players] player Q5.
[1307] sir] Ff. om. Qq.
[1308] A whole one, I.] Ay, a whole one. Hanmer. A whole one;—ay— Malone conj. A whole one, ay, Grant White.
[1309] This ... himself] Arranged as in Qq. One line in Ff.
[1310] pajock] F3 F4. paiock Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. paiocke F1 Q6. pajocke F2. paicock Q (1676). pecock Q (1695). peacock Pope. paddock Theobald. puttock or meacock Id. conj. (withdrawn). baiocco Anon. conj. (1814). hedjocke (i.e. hedgehog) S. Evans conj. padge-hawk Id. conj. (withdrawn). patokie (i.e. pataicco or pataikoi) E. Warwick conj. Polack Anon. conj. [hiccups. (as a stage direction) Leo conj.
[1311] pound] pounds Rowe (ed. 2).
[1312] poisoning?] poysoning? Ff. poysning. Q2 Q3. poysoning. Q4. poisoning. Q5 Q6.
[1313] Ah, ha!] Ah ha, Qq. Oh, ha? F1 F2 F3. Oh ha! F4.
[1314] like] likes Q6.
[1315] Re-enter....] Dyce. Enter.... Qq. Enter.... Ff. (after line 278).
[1316] vouchsafe] Ff Q6. voutsafe Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1317] sir,—] sir— Rowe. sir. Qq Ff.
[1318] him?] Qq F1. him. F2 F3 F4.
[1319] rather] Ff. om. Qq.
[1320] more richer] Qq F1. more rich F2 F3 F4. richer Q (1676).
[1321] the doctor] Qq. his doctor F1. F2 F3. this doctor F4.
for, for] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. for for F1 Q6 for F2 F3 F4.
[1322] far] F4. farre F1 F2 F3. om. Qq.
[1323] Good ... affair.] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending frame, in Qq.
[1325] [with great ceremony. Capell.
[1326] of my] Ff. of Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. of the Q6.
[1327] Guil.] Guild. Ff. Ros. Qq.
lord?] Ff Q6. lord. The rest.
[1328] wit's] Q6 F4. wits The rest.
[1329] answer] Q5 Q6. answere Q2 Q3 Q4. answers Ff.
[1330] as you] Qq. you Ff.
[1331] say,—] say— Rowe. say. Qq Ff.
[1332] struck] F4. strooke Qq. stroke F1 F2 F3.
[1333] so] thus Q (1676).
astonish] Ff Q6. stonish Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. 'stonish Capell.
[1334] mother's admiration] mother admiration F3. mother-admiration F4.
admiration?] admiration, Q2 Q3.
[1335] Impart.] Qq. om. Ff.
[1336] So I] Ff. And Qq.
[1337] surely ... upon] Qq. freely of Ff. surely ... of Grant White.
bar] but bar Reed (1803).
[1338] sir] Qq. om. Ff.
grows,—] grows— Pope. growes, Q2 Q3 Q4 F1 F2 F3. grows, Q5 F4. growes; Q6.
[1339] Re-enter....] Dyce. Enter the Players with Recorders. Qq (after line 326). Enter one with a Recorder. Ff.
[1340] recorders] Qq. recorder Ff.
see one. To] Pope. see one, to Qq. see, to F1 F2. see to F3 F4. set one. To Rowe. See note (XVIII).
To ... you:] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell.
you:—] you; Q6. you, The rest.
[1341] love is too unmannerly.] love is not unmannerly. Tyrwhitt conj. love too unmannerly.... Keightley.
[1342] Guil.] Ros. Nicholson conj.
[1343] do] om. Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1344] Guil.] Ros. Staunton conj.
[1345] It is] Qq. 'Tis Ff.
ventages] Qq. ventiges Ff.
[1346] with ... thumb] and the umbo with your fingers Becket conj.
fingers] Qq. finger Ff.
and thumb,] F4. and thumbe F1 F2 F3. & the vmber, Q2 Q3. and the thumb Q4 Q5. and the thumbe, Q6.
[1347] eloquent] Qq. excellent Ff.
[1348] make] would make Johnson.
[1349] the top of] Ff. om. Qq.
[1350] speak] om. Ff.
[1351] 'Sblood] s'bloud Q2 Q3 Q6. s'blood Q4 Q5. Why Ff. om. Q (1676).
I] Qq. that I Ff.
[1352] can fret me] (Q1) Ff. fret me not Qq.
[1353] yet] (Q1) Edd. (Globe ed.) om. Qq Ff.
[1354] Enter Polonius.] As in Capell. After sir!, line 356, in Qq Ff.
[1355] you] your F2.
[1356] yonder] Qq. that Ff.
[1357] cloud ... camel?] Pointed as in Qq. cloud?... camell. F1 F2. cloud, ... camell. F3. cloud, ... camel? F4.
[1358] of] Qq. like Ff.
[1359] camel ... camel] weasel ... weasel Capell.
[1360] By the mass] By'th masse Qq. By th' mass F4. By 'th' misse F1 F2. By th' misse F3.
'tis like] Q4 Q5 Q6. tis, like Q2 Q3. it's like Ff (its F2). 'tis—like Jennens.
[1361] a weasel ... a weasel] an ouzle ... an ouzle Pope, reading black in line 363. a camel ... a camel Capell.
[1362] backed] back'd Ff. back't (Q1). backt Q2 Q3. black Q4 Q5. blacke Q6. beck'd Tollet conj.
[1363] whale?] Ff. whale. Qq.
[1364] I will] Qq. will I Ff.
[1365] They fool me] They fool me [to Hor. Capell.
They ... bent.] A separate line in Ff.
[1367] [Exit Polonius.] Exit. Ff. om. Qq. After said, line 370, in Dyce.
[1368] [Exeunt....] Exeunt Ros. and Gui. Horatio, and the Players, withdraw. Capell. Exe. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[1369] breathes] Q6 F3 F4. breaths F1 F2. breakes Q2 Q3 Q4. breaks Q5.
[1370] this] the Q6.
[1371] bitter ... day] Ff. busines as the bitter day Qq. business as day it self Q (1676). business as the better day Warburton. business as the bitter'st day Heath conj. business as the light of day Cartwright conj.
[1372] Soft! now] soft, now Qq. Soft now, Ff.
[1373] lose] Q6. loose The rest.
[1374] not] but not Johnson.
[1375] daggers] Ff Q6. dagger Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1376] How ... consent!] Omitted by Pope.
[1377] soever] Q6. somever The rest.
[1378] never, my soul, consent] Pointed as by Capell. never my soule consent Qq Ff.
[Exit.] Q2 Q3 Q4. om. Q5 Ff Q6.
[1379] Scene iii.] Capell. Scene ix. Pope. Scene vii. Warburton. om. Ff.
A ... castle.] Capell, substantially.
[1380] range] rage Pope.
[1381] estate may] estate, may F2 F3 F4.
[1382] near us] neare us Q6. neer's Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. dangerous Ff.
[1383] lunacies] Ff. browes Qq. lunes Theobald. frows Johnson conj. braves Anon. conj.
ourselves provide] provide our selves Pope.
[1384] To keep ... live] One line in Rowe, reading many.
[1385] many many] many F2 F3 F4 and Q (1676). very many Collier (Collier MS.) many-many Staunton.
[1386] The ... bound] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending single, in Ff.
[1387] noyance] 'noyance Hanmer.
[1389] many. The] many: the Q6. many, the The rest.
cease] Ff. cesse Qq. decease Pope.
The cease of] Deceasing Bailey conj.
[1390] it is] It is Ff. or it is Qq. It's Pope.
[1391] summit] Rowe. somnet Qq Ff and Q (1676).
[1392] huge] hough Q2 Q3. hugh Q4.
[1393] mortised] morteist Qq. mortiz'd Ff.
[1394] ruin] ruine Ff. raine Qq.
Never] Ne'er Pope.
[1395] with] Ff. om. Qq.
groan] F3 F4. growne Q4 Q5. grone The rest.
[1396] voyage] viage Q2 Q3. voiage Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1397] about] Qq. upon Ff.
[1398] Ros. Guil.] Steevens (1793). Both. Ff. Ros. Qq.
haste us] make haste Q6.
[Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt Gent. Qq Ff.
[1399] warrant] warnt Q6.
[1400] speech, of vantage] Theobald. speech of vantage Qq Ff.
[1401] know] heare Q6.
[Exit Polonius.] Capell. Exit. Qq Ff (after know).
[1402] upon't] Ff Q6. uppont Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1403] A] That of a Theobald.
murder] murderer S. Walker conj.
can I not] I cannot Q (1676) and Rowe. alas! I cannot Hanmer. can I?—No! Jackson conj. that can I not Seymour conj.
[1404] not, ... will:] Pointed as in Ff. not, ... will, Qq.
[1405] will] 't will Hanmer (Anon. ap. Theobald conj.) th' ill Warburton.
[1406] guilt defeats] guilt, defeats F1 F2 F3.
[1407] neglect. What] neglect: what Q4 Q5 Q6. neglect; what Ff. neglect, what Q2 Q3.
[1408] pardon'd] Ff. pardon Qq.
[1409] fault is] faults is Q4 Q5.
[1410] murder?] murther? Q6. murther, Q2 Q3. murther: Q4 Q5 F1 F2 F3. mother: F4. murther! Pope.
[1411] effects] affects Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1412] pardon'd] pardoned Q4 Q5 Q6.
offence] effects Warburton.
[1413] corrupted currents] Q2 Q3 Q5 Q6. conrupted currents Q4. corrupted currants Ff. corrupt occurrents Anon. conj. MS. and Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752. corrupted 'currents Dyce, ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.)
currents of this world] courts of this bad world Long MS.
[1414] gilded] F1 F4. guilded Q2 Q3 F2 F3. guided Q4 Q5 Q6.
shove] Ff. showe Q2 Q3. show Q4 Q5. shew Q6.
[1415] prize] purse Collier (Collier MS.)
[1416] his] it's Long MS.
and] om. Pope.
[1417] it] aught Hanmer.
can not] can but Warburton.
[1418] angels] angles Q4 Q5.
[1419] heart] hearts Q6.
steel] steale Q2 Q3 Q4.
[1420] [Retires....] Malone. hee kneeles. (Q1). The King kneels. Rowe. Remains in Action of Prayer. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[1421] Scene x. Pope. Scene ix. Warburton.
it pat, now he is] Ff. it, but now a is Q2 Q3 Q5 Q6. it, bot now a is Q4.
praying] a praying Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1422] so he goes] Ff. so a goes Q2 Q3 Q5 Q6. so goes Q4.
[1423] revenged.] revendge, Q2 Q3 Q4. revenged, Q5. reveng'd: F1 F2 F3. reveng'd? Q6. revenged: F4.
[1424] sole] Qq. foule F1 F2 F3. foul F4. fal'n Warburton. fool Heath and Capell conj.
[1425] To heaven] A separate line in Qq. Joined to line 79 in Ff.
[1426] O,] Oh Ff. Why Qq.
hire and salary] hire and salery Ff. base and silly Qq. a reward Q (1676). reward Q (1703).
[1427] He] Ff. A Qq.
bread] blood Mason conj.
[1428] as flush] Qq. as fresh Ff. and flush Warburton.
[1429] and] om. Pope.
[1430] season'd] seasoned Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1431] No.] A separate line in Qq. Ends line 86 in Ff. Omitted by Pope.
[1432] hent] bent F4. time Q (1676) and Rowe. hest Warburton conj. (withdrawn). hint Capell (Theobald conj.)
[1433] drunk asleep] Pointed as in Ff. drunke, asleep Qq. drunk-asleep Johnson.
[1434] incestuous] incestious Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
pleasure] pleasures Q (1676) and Capell.
[1435] game, a-swearing] game a swearing Q2 Q3. game swaring (Q1). game, a swearing Q4 Q5 Q6. gaming, swearing Ff.
[1436] heels may] heele mas Q4 Q5. heele may Q6.
[1437] [Rising] Rises. Capell. The King rises, and comes forward. Theobald om. Qq Ff.
[1438] Scene iv.] Capell. Scene ii. Rowe. Scene xi. Pope. Scene x. Warburton.
The Queen's closet.] Steevens. The Queen's Apartment. Rowe.
Enter Queen....] Ff. Enter Gertrard.... Qq.
[1439] He] Ff. A Qq.
He.... him:] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[1440] bear] berre F2.
[1441] screen'd] scree'nd F2 F3.
[1442] sconce me even] Hanmer. silence me even Qq. silence me e'ene F1. silence me e'ne F2 F3 F4. 'sconce me e'en Warburton. silence me in Long MS. See note (XX).
[1443] with him] Ff. om. Qq.
Ham ... mother!] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[1444] Queen.] Qu., Que. or Queen. Ff. Ger. Qq (and throughout the scene, except line 51).
[1445] I'll ... coming.] Prose by Edd. Two lines, the first ending not, in Qq Ff.
[1446] warrant] Ff Q6. wait Q2 Q3. waite Q4 Q5.
not. Withdraw] not: you withdraw Hanmer, ending the previous line warrant you.
[1447] [Polonius hides....] Polonius hides himself.... Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
Enter Hamlet.] Ff. After round, line 5, in Qq. Enter Hamlet, abruptly. Capell.
[1448] a wicked] Qq. an idle Ff.
[1449] What's the matter now?] Continued to Queen, S. Walker conj.
[1450] And—would ... so!—you] Pointed as in Pope, substantially. And would it were not so, you Qq. But would you were not so. You Ff. But 'would it were not so!—You Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[1451] set] send Collier MS.
[1452] budge] Q6 F3 F4. boudge The rest.
[1453] go not] go not hence Long MS. reading with F2.
set you up] set up F2 F3 F4.
[1454] glass Where ... you.] glasse. Where ... you? F2 F3 F4.
[1455] inmost] Ff. most Qq. utmost Q (1676).
[1456] Help, help, ho!] Helpe, helpe, hoa. F1 F2. Help, help, hoa. F3 F4. Helpe how. Q2 Q3 Q4. Helpe hoe. Q5. Helpe ho. Q6.
[1457] Help, ... rat?] As one line in Capell, reading What, ho! help!
[1458] [Behind] Capell. Behind the arras. Rowe. on. Ff.
What, ho!... help!] Ff. What how helpe. Q2 Q3 Q4. What hoe helpe. Q5 Q6.
[1459] [Drawing] Draws. Malone, after rat? om. Qq Ff.
[Makes ... arras.] Capell, substantially. om. Qq Ff.
[1460] [Behind] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[Falls and dies.] Falls forward, and dies. Capell. Killes Polonius. Ff. om. Qq.
what hast] hast F3.
[1461] Nay ... king?] As in Qq Ff. Capell ends line 25 at know not.
[1462] is] was Q (1676).
[1463] kill] Qq F1. killd F2. kill'd F3 F4.
king!] king? Ff Q6. king. Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
'twas] F1 F3 F4. twas F2. it was Qq.
[Lifts ... discovers....] Lifts ... sees.... Dyce. Lifts up the arras, and draws forth Polonius. Capell (after line 26). om. Qq Ff.
[1464] [To Polonius. Pope.
[1465] better] Qq. betters Ff.
[1466] brass'd] brasd Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. bras'd Ff Q6.
[1467] be] Qq. is Ff.
sense] thy sense Q (1703).
[1468] hypocrite] hippocrit Q2 Q3. hipocrit Q4.
off] Ff Q6. of The rest.
[1469] sets] Qq. makes Ff.
[1470] rhapsody] F4. rapsedy Q2 Q3. rapsody Q4 F2 F3. rapsodie Q5 Q6. rapsidie F1.
doth] Ff. dooes Q2 Q3 Q4. does Q5 Q6.
[1471] glow; Yea,] glow, Yea Ff. glowe Ore Q2 Q3. glow Ore Q4 Q5. glow Yea Q6. glow; Yet Smyth conj. MS.
[1472] solidity] solidiry Q4 Q5.
[1473] tristful] F4. tristfull F1 F2 F3. heated Qq.
as against] and, as 'gainst Warburton, reading O'er in line 49.
[1474] act.] act. Ah me, that act! Q (1676).
[1476] was] om. F2 F3 F4.
this] Q2 Q3. his The rest.
[1477] and] Qq. or Ff.
[1478] New-lighted] New lighted Qq F1. Now lighted F2 F3 F4.
a heaven-kissing] Ff Q6 (Ingleby's copy). a heaue, a kissing Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 (Capell's copy).
[1479] and a] and Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1480] mildew'd] Ff Q6. mildewed Q2 Q3 Q4. mil-dewed Q5.
ear] eare Qq F1. deare F2. deer F3 F4.
[1481] brother] Qq. breath Ff.
[1482] batten] batter Q (1676).
[1483] in the] of the Q (1676).
it's] its F2.
[1485] Sense ... difference.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1486] motion] notion Warburton.
[1487] cozen'd] F3 F4. cosund Q2 Q3. cosond Q4 Q5. cousend F1 F2. couzen'd Q6.
hoodman] Ff. hodman Qq. hobman (Q1).
hoodman-blind] Hyphen omitted in Q2 Q3.
[1488] Eyes ... mope.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1489] Could ... blush?] As in Ff. One line in Qq.
[1490] hell] heat Hanmer.
[1491] mutine] mutiny Q (1676) and Rowe.
[1492] ardour] Pope. ardure Qq Ff.
[1493] And] Qq. As Ff.
panders] Ff. pardons Qq. guerdons Anon. conj. MS.
[1494] eyes into my very] Ff. very eyes into my Qq.
[1495] grained] Ff. greeued Q2 Q3 Q4. grieued Q5. grieved Q6.
[1496] not leave] Ff. leave there Qq.
[1497] enseamed] Ff. inseemed Q2 Q3. incestuous Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1498] sty,—] sty;— Theobald. stie. Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. stye. F1 F2 Q6 F3. sty. F4.
to me] om. Pope.
me no] Qq. me, no Ff.
[1499] in] into Q (1676).
my] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. mine Ff Q6.
[1500] that is not] that's not the Q (1676). that is not a Keightley.
tithe] tythe Ff. kyth Qq.
[1501] the rule,] a rogue Anon. apud Rann conj.
[1503] patches—] Rowe. patches, Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. patches. Ff Q6. patches, all unseemly. Seymour conj.
Enter Ghost.] As in Dyce. Before line 102 in Qq Ff. Enter the Ghost in his night gowne. (Q1). Enter Ghost unarmed. Collier MS.
[1504] [Starting up. Rowe.
[1505] your] Qq. you Ff. you, Knight.
[1506] Queen. Alas, he's mad!] om. (Q1) and Seymour conj.
he's] hee's Qq. hes F2.
[1507] time] fume Collier MS.
[1508] O, say!] As in Theobald. At the end of the previous line in Qq Ff.
[1509] fighting] sighting Q4. sighing Q5 Q6.
[1510] you do] you doe Qq. you F1. thus you F2 F3 F4.
[1511] the incorporal] th' incorporall Qq. their corporall F1. the corporall F2 F3. th' incorporeal Q (1676). the corporal F4.
[1512] bedded] Q2 Q3 Ff. beaded Q4 Q5 Q6. om. Q (1676).
hairs] Rowe. haire Qq F1 F2. hair F3 F4.
like ... excrements] om. Q (1676).
[1513] Start ... stand] Q2 Q3 Ff. Starts ... stands Q4 Q5 Q6.
an end] Qq Ff. on end Q (1676) and Pope (ed. 2).
[1514] glares] gleres Q5 Q6.
[1515] conjoin'd] conioyned Q4 Q5.
[1516] upon] on Pope.
[1517] effects] affects Singer.
I have] have I F3 F4.
[1518] whom] who F1.
[Pointing to the Ghost. Rowe.
[1519] that is] that's here Q (1676).
is] is there Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1520] steals] stalks Anon. conj. MS. and Misc. Obs. on Hamlet, 1752.
[1521] father, in his habit as] father—in his habit—as Steevens conj.
lived] lives Q4.
[1522] [Exit Ghost.] Qq. Exit. Ff.
[1523] This ... in.] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.
[1524] Ecstasy!] Extasie? Ff. om. Qq. What ecstasie? Pope. How! ecstasy! Seymour conj.
[1525] utter'd] uttred Qq. uttered Ff.
[1526] And I the] Ff Q6. And the Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
re-word] re-ward Q (1703).
[1527] Would gambol from. Mother,] Cannot do mother, Q (1676).
[1528] that] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. a Ff. this Q6.
[1529] Whiles] Qq. Whilst Ff.
mining] running F3 F4.
[1530] what is] what else Seymour conj.
[1531] on] Qq. or Ff. o'er Knight.
[1532] ranker] Q5 Q6. rancker Q2 Q3 Q4. ranke F1 F2. rank F3 F4.
[1533] Forgive ... good.] Marked as 'aside' by Staunton.
[1534] me] om. Pope.
[1535] these] this F1.
[1536] curb] F4. curbe Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 F3. courb F1 Q6. courbe F2.
him] it Pope.
[1537] O Hamlet] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.
in twain] om. Q (1676).
[1538] O] Then Q (1676).
[1539] live] Ff. leave Qq.
[1540] my] Qq. mine Ff.
[1541] That ... put on.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1542] eat, Of habits devil,] eat, Of habits divell, Q6. eate Of habits deuill, Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. eat Of habit's devil, Rowe. eat, Of habit's devil, Pope. eat Of habits evil, Theobald (Thirlby conj.) eat Of habit's evil, Grant White (Theobald conj. withdrawn). eat Of habits, devil, Johnson. eat, Or habit's devil, Steevens conj. eat, If habit's devil, Becket conj. ape, Oft habits devil,, or ape Of devils' habits or ape, Of habits evil Jackson conj. eat, Oft habits' devil, Staunton. create Of habits, devil Keightley. eat,—O shapeless devil!— Bullock conj.
[1543] on. Refrain to-night] on: refrain to night Q6. on to refraine night Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
Refrain to-night] Put at the end of line 160 in Ff.
[1544] the next more ... potency.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1545] almost can] can almost Rowe.
[1546] And either ... the] And either the Q2 Q3. And Maister the Q4. And master the Q5 Q6. And master ev'n the Pope. And master even the Capell. And either curb the Malone. And either quell the Singer (ed. 1). And either mate the Anon. conj. And wither up the Bullock conj. And either lay the Cartwright conj.
And either house Bailey conj.
[1547] [Pointing to Polonius.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[1548] heaven hath] the heavens have Hanmer.
[1549] me ... me] him with me, and me with this Hanmer. this with me, and me with this Johnson.
[1550] I ... behind.] Aside. Delius conj.
[1551] Thus] Ff Q6. This The rest.
[1552] One ... lady.] Qq. Omitted in Ff. Hark, one ... lady. Capell. But one ... lady. Steevens (1793). One ... good my lady. Keightley.
[1553] the bloat] Warburton. the blowt Qq. the blunt Ff. not the Q (1676). the fond Pope.
again to bed] to bed again Q (1676).
[1554] to ravel Q (1676) and F4. to ravell F1 F2 Q6 F3. rouell Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
[1555] gib] Qq. gibbe Ff. gib-cat Keightley.
[1556] concernings] conceruings Q4. conseruings Q5.
[1557] conclusions, in the basket] F3 F4. conclusions in the basket Qq. conclusions in the basket, F1. conclusions, in the basket, F2.
[1558] breathe] F3 Q6 F4. breath The rest.
[1559] that?] Ff. that. Q2 Q3 Q6. that, Q4 Q5.
Alack,] om. Seymour conj., ending lines 196-199, assured ... life ... said ... that?
[1560] Alack ... on.] As in Capell. Two lines, the first ending forgot, in Qq. One line in Ff.
[1561] on] om. Hanmer.
[1562] There's ... meet.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1563] knavery] naiveté or naiverie Becket conj.
[1564] the sport] true sport Anon. conj.
enginer] Qq. engineer Q (1676) and Pope.
[1565] petar] Qq. petard Johnson.
and't] Theobald. an't Qq. and it Steevens.
[1566] meet.] Q6. meete, Q2 Q3 Q4. meet, Q5.
[1567] shall] will Q (1676).
packing:] packing: I'll pack him: Anon. conj.
[1568] good night. Indeed] Pointed as in Ff. good night indeed, Qq.
[1569] in life] in's life Q6.
foolish] (Q1) Ff. most foolish Qq.
foolish prating] foolish-prating S. Walker conj.
[1570] [Exeunt....] Malone, after Capell. Exit. Qq. Exit Hamlet with the dead body. (Q1). Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius. Ff.
Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.[1571]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1573]
Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1589]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1592]
Enter Hamlet.[1596]
Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[1599]
Enter King, attended.[1608]
Enter Rosencrantz.[1613]
Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern.[1614]
[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Enter Fortinbras, a Captain and Soldiers, marching.[1638]
[Exeunt Fortinbras and Soldiers.[1643]
Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and others.[1643][1644]
[Exeunt all but Hamlet.[1645][1657]
Enter Queen, Horatio, and a Gentleman.[1665]
Re-enter Gentleman, with Ophelia.
Enter King.[1688]
Enter another Gentleman.[1734]
Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following.[1745]
[They retire without the door.[1747][1748]
Re-enter Ophelia.[1771]
[Exit.[1804]
Enter Horatio and a Servant.[1815]
Enter Sailors.[1820]
Enter King and Laertes.
Enter a Messenger, with letters.
Enter Queen.[1941]
[1571] Act iv. Scene i.] Q (1676) and Rowe.
A room....] A Royal apartment. Rowe. The same. Capell.
Enter....] Enter King, and Queene, with Rosencraus and Guyldensterne. Qq (Eenter Q2 Q3). Enter King. Ff. Enter the King and Lordes. (Q1).
[1572] There's ... heaves:] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
matter] Qq. matters Ff.
sighs, these ... heaves:] sighs, these ... heaves; Rowe. sighes, these ... heaves, Qq. sighes. These ... heaves Ff.
[1573] &c. Queen.] Ger. or Gert. in Qq. Bestow ... while.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
a little while] om. Seymour conj.
[Exeunt....] Q (1676) and Capell. To Ros. and Guild. who go out. Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
[1574] mine own] Qq. my good Ff.
to-night!] to night? Qq Ff.
[1575] Gertrude] Ff. Gertrard Q2 Q3 Q6. Gertrad Q4. Gertard Q5.
How] hast thou seen? and how Seymour conj.
[1576] sea] Qq. seas Ff.
[1577] mightier:] mightier; Rowe. ightier, Q2 Q3 Ff. mightier Q4 Q5 Q6.
fit,] Qq. fit Ff.
[1578] Whips out ... cries] Qq (Whyps Q2 Q3. cryeis Q4 Q5). He whips his Rapier out, and cries Ff.
'a rat, a rat!'] a rat! Pope, reading the rest of the line with Ff.
[1579] this] Qq. his Ff.
[1580] been] Q6 F3 F4. beene Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. bin F1. bine F2.
been] Q2 Q3 F3 Q6 F4. beene Q4 F1 F2. bin Q5.
[1581] answer'd] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. answered Ff Q6.
[1582] haunt] harm Johnson conj.
[1583] let] Qq. let's F1 F3 F4. lets F2.
[1584] ore] Qq F4. oare F1 F2 F3. or (i.e. gold) Johnson conj.
[1585] metals] metal Mason conj.
[1586] he] Ff. a Qq.
[1587] O] Q2 Q3. Oh Ff. om. Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1588] vile] Qq F4. vilde F1 F2 F3.
[1589] Both ... Guildenstern!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
Re-enter ...] Dyce. Enter Ros. & Guild. Qq (after line 31). After excuse in Ff.
[1590] you with] with you Q (1676).
[1591] mother's closet] Mother Clossets F1.
dragg'd] dreg'd Q2 Q3.
[1592] I pray] Pray Pope.
[Exeunt ...] Ex. Ros. and Guild. Rowe. Exit Gent. Ff. om. Qq.
[1593] And let] Qq. To let Ff.
[1595] his] its Theobald.
poison'd] poysned Q2 Q3 Q4. poysoned Q5 Q6.
[1596] Scene II.] Pope.
Another....] Capell.
Enter Hamlet.] Ff. Enter Hamlet, Rosencraus, and others. Qq.
[1597] Ros. Guil. [Within] ... Hamlet!] Gentlemen within. Hamlet, Lord Hamlet. Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[1599] Enter....] Ff. om. Qq.
[1600] Compounded] Compound Q2 Q3.
'tis kin] it is kin Q4 Q5 Q6. it is akin Q (1676).
[1601] sponge!] sponge!— Steevens. sponge,— Capell. spunge, or spundge, Qq Ff.
[1602] like an ape] Ff. like an apple Qq. like an ape, an apple Farmer conj. like an ape doth nuts Singer, from (Q1).
[1603] with the king, but] not with the king, for Johnson conj.
[1604] a thing—] Ff. a thing. Qq. nothing. Hanmer.
[1605] A thing] Nothing Hanmer.
lord?] Ff Q6. lord. The rest.
[1606] Of nothing:] F1. Of nothing Qq. Of nothing? F2 F3 F4. A thing or nothing Hanmer. Or nothing. Johnson conj.
[1607] Hide ... after.] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
[1608] Scene iii.] Pope.
Another....] Capell.
Enter King, attended.] Capell. Enter King, and two or three. Qq. Enter King. Ff.
[1609] I have] I've Pope.
[1610] on] upon Keightley.
[1611] weigh'd] Ff. wayed Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. waigh'd Q6.
[1612] never] Qq. neerer F1 F2. nearer F3 F4. ne'er Long MS.
and even] om. Pope. even Jennens (a misprint).
[1613] Enter Rosencrantz.] Enter Rosencraus and all the rest. Qq. Enter Rosencrane. F1. Enter Rosincros. F2 F3 F4.
[1614] Ho, Guildenstern!] Hoa, Guildensterne? F1. Hoa, Guildenstar? F2 F3. Ho, Guildenstare? F4. How, Q2 Q3. Hoe, Q4 Q5. Ho, Q6.
Guildenstern] om. Qq.
my lord] Ff. the lord Qq. the lord Hamlet Q (1676).
Enter ...] Ff. They enter. Qq.
[1615] he is] a is Q2 Q3 Q4.
[1616] convocation] convacation Q2 Q3 Q4.
politic] politique Q2 Q3 Q4. politick Q5 Q6. om. Ff. palated Collier MS.
e'en] om. Pope.
[1617] ourselves] our selfe F1.
[1618] service, two] service to F1.
[1619] but] om. Pope.
[1620] King. Alas, alas! Ham. A ... that worm.] Qq. Omitted in Ff.
[1621] and] om. Q4 Q5 Q6.
[1622] guts] Qq F1. gut F2 F3 F4.
[1623] indeed, if] Ff. indeed if Q6. if indeed Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.
within] Qq. om. Ff.
[1624] [To some Attendants.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[1626] deed, for thine] Qq. deed of thine, for thine Ff.
[1627] With fiery quickness:] Ff. Omitted in Qq.
therefore] then Pope.
[1628] at help] sits fair Q (1676). at helm Johnson conj.
[1629] is bent] Qq. at bent Ff.
[1630] For England ... Good.] As one line first by Steevens (1793).
England?] F1 Q6 F3 F4. England. The rest.
[1631] sees] knows Seymour conj.
them] Qq. him Ff.
[1632] and so] (Q1) Ff Q6. so The rest.
[1633] Follow ... aboard:] One line in Rowe. Two, the first ending foote, in Qq Ff.
at foot] om. Q (1676).
[1634] [Exeunt ...] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.
[1635] set] let Pope (ed. 2). set by Hanmer. jet Becket conj. rate Anon. conj. see Collier MS. See note (