Pol. Come, firs.

Ham. Follow him, friends we'll

morrow. Doft thou hear me, old friend,

murther of Gonzago?

Play. Ay, my lord.

Take them

f [Exit Polonius.

hear a play to

can you play the

s Qu's and fo's read where. P. and

H. read if.

t H. reads bas not tears.

u The fo's and R. read, Pray you no

more.

w The fo's and R. omit of this.

x Third q. doe.

y All but qu's and C. ye.

z The fo's and R. read abftra&is.,

a So the qu's and C. All the rest, lived.

b First and 2d fo's, defart.

The qu's read, Gods bodkin. J. Odds bodikins.

d The fo's and R. omit much..

e The fo's and R. read should.

f No direction in the qu's.

8 Second q. bere; So S. but gives not the reading of 3d, beare.

Ham.

Ref. Good my lord.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VIII.

Manet Hamlet.

Ham. Ay fo, God b' w' ye. Now I am alone.

Oh, what a rogue and peasant flave am I!
Is it not monftrous that this player here,
But in a P fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his foul fo to his own conceit,
That from her working, all his visage' wan'd;
Tears in his eyes, diftraction in his afpect,
A broken voice, and his whole function fuiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing?
For Hecuba?

h So the 2d and 3d qu's; 1ft q. hate;

the reft ba't.

i The qu's omit a.

• Third q. am 1.

P First and 2d qu's and 1ft f. fixion.

9 The fo's and R. read whole inftead

k The qu's and C. read, fome dozen of own. lines or fixteen lines.

1 All but qu's and C. yr.

m This direction first put in by J. n The qu's read God buy to you; fo's, aft, ad and 3d, God buy'ye,

r The qu's read the inftead of bis.

So the qu's, W. J. and C. The fo's and all the reft read warm'd. Third q. fo's and R. in 's.

What's

A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain, breaks my pate a-cross,
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by th' nofe, gives me the lye i' th' throat,
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?

Hah! 'swounds I fhould take it-for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall

To make oppreffion bitter; or, ere this

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I should have fatted all the region kites
With this flave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain!

So the qu's. The fo's and all the reft, or be to Hecuba.

w Qu's, and that for passion, &c. * Firft q. appale ; 2d and 3d, appeale. The fo's, apale.

b Three last fo's, Jobn-a-deames. c First and 2d qu's, by the nofe.

d So the qu's; 2d and 3d fo's and R. Why should I take it? The 1ft and ad fo's and C. Ha? why I should take it.

7 So the qu's and C. All the reft, P. alters it to, Yet I should take it; but

facuity.

z J. reads, ears and eyes.

a P. and H. omit what is included, between the crotchets. But P. puts it in the margent.

puts the folio-reading in the margent, which the reft (who all follow his alteration) neglect to do.

e Firft q. reads a instead of have. f The fo's read, With this flave's offal, bloody: a bawdy, kc. B

‹ Why,

That guilty creatures, " fitting at a play,
Have by the very cunning of the scene

• Been ftruck fo to the foul, that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions:

For murther, though it have no tongue, will fpeak
P With moft miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play fomething like the murther of my father,
Before mine uncle: I'll obferve his looks;

The fo's read, Ob vengeance! Who?
what an afs am I? I fure, this is, &c.
R. Ob vengeance! Why what an ofs am
I? I fure, this is, &c.

The fo's and R. read

h So the 1st q. the dear murthered. All the reft, a dear father murthered. There feems to be no neceffity of the word father here; or rather, it is a tautology.

i The 3d q. omits A. S. though he has this edition, takes no notice of this omiffion.

k So the qu's and P. The fo's, R. W. J. and C. read fcullion. T. is perfuaded that Shakespeare wrote, cullion; and puts it in the text; H. follows him.

1 So the qu's and C. All the reft read brain. S. gives another reading of one of his editions, viz. braues.

In all but the qu's and C. bum is omitted.

n P. omits fitting; followed by T. H. and W.

• R. reads, Been firuck unto the foul, &c.

P P.'s quarto reads,

With moft miraculous organ. I'll obferve his looks,

Play fomething like the murther of my father,

Before mine uncle. ` I'll obferve kis looks, &'c.