ained the text of the play, with sidenotes and footnote references,
and the corresponding right-facing page contained the footnotes
themselves and additional commentary. In this electronic text, the
play-text pages are numbered (contrary to custom in electronic texts),
to allow use of the cross-references provided in the sidenotes and
footnotes. In the play text, sidenotes towards the left of the page are
those marginal cross-references described earlier, and sidenotes toward
the right of the page are the differences noted a few paragraphs later.]

[Page 1]

THE TRAGEDIE

OF

HAMLET

PRINCE OF DENMARKE.

[Page 2]

_ACTUS PRIMUS._

_Enter Barnardo and Francisco two Centinels_[1].

_Barnardo._ Who's there?

_Fran._[2] Nay answer me: Stand and vnfold yourselfe.

_Bar._ Long liue the King.[3]

_Fran._ _Barnardo?_

_Bar._ He.

_Fran._ You come most carefully vpon your houre.

_Bar._ 'Tis now strook twelue, get thee to bed _Francisco_.

_Fran._ For this releefe much thankes: 'Tis
[Sidenote: 42] bitter cold,
And I am sicke at heart.[4]

_Barn._ Haue you had quiet Guard?[5]

_Fran._ Not a Mouse stirring.

_Barn._ Well, goodnight. If you do meet _Horatio_ and
_Marcellus_, the Riuals[6] of my Watch, bid them make hast.

_Enter Horatio and Marcellus._

_Fran._ I thinke I heare them. Stand: who's there?
[Sidenote: Stand ho, who is there?]

_Hor._ Friends to this ground.

_Mar._ And Leige-men to the Dane.

_Fran._ Giue you good night.

_Mar._ O farwel honest Soldier, who hath [Sidenote: souldiers]
relieu'd you?

[Footnote 1: --meeting. Almost dark.]

[Footnote 2: --on the post, and with the right of challenge.]

[Footnote 3: The watchword.]

[Footnote 4: The key-note to the play--as in _Macbeth_: 'Fair is
foul and foul is fair.' The whole nation is troubled by late events at
court.]

[Footnote 5: --thinking of the apparition.]

[Footnote 6: _Companions_.]

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_Fra._ _Barnardo_ ha's my place: giue you good-night. [Sidenote: hath]
_Exit Fran._

_Mar._ Holla _Barnardo_.

_Bar._ Say, what is Horatio there?

_Hor._ A peece of him.

_Bar._ Welcome _Horatio_, welcome good _Marcellus_.

_Mar._ What, ha's this thing appear'd againe to [Sidenote: _Hor_.[1]]
night.

_Bar._ I haue seene nothing.

_Mar._ Horatio saies, 'tis but our Fantasie,
And will not let beleefe take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, t