e: that's out of the ayre;]
How pregnant (sometimes) his Replies are?
A happinesse,
That often Madnesse hits on,
Which Reason and Sanitie could not [Sidenote: sanctity]
So prosperously be deliuer'd of.

[Footnote 1: One of the meanings of the word, and more in use then than
now, is _understanding_.]

[Footnote 2: (_aside_).]

[Footnote 3: --pretending to take him to mean by _matter_, the _point of
quarrel_.]

[Footnote 4: Propriety.]

[Footnote 5: (_aside_).]

[Footnote 6: the draught.]

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[A] I will leaue him,
And sodainely contriue the meanes of meeting
Betweene him,[1] and my daughter.
My Honourable Lord, I will most humbly
Take my leaue of you.

_Ham_. You cannot Sir take from[2] me any thing,
that I will more willingly part withall, except my
[Sidenote: will not more | my life, except my]
life, my life.[3]
[Sidenote: _Enter Guyldersterne, and Rosencrans_.]

_Polon_. Fare you well my Lord.

_Ham_. These tedious old fooles.

_Polon_. You goe to seeke my Lord _Hamlet_; [Sidenote: the Lord]
there hee is.

_Enter Rosincran and Guildensterne_.[4]

_Rosin_. God saue you Sir.

_Guild_. Mine honour'd Lord?

_Rosin_. My most deare Lord?

_Ham_. My excellent good friends? How do'st [Sidenote: My extent good]
thou _Guildensterne_? Oh, _Rosincrane_; good Lads:
[Sidenote: A Rosencraus]
How doe ye both? [Sidenote: you]

_Rosin_. As the indifferent Children of the earth.

_Guild_. Happy, in that we are not ouer-happy: [Sidenote: euer happy on]
on Fortunes Cap, we are not the very Button. [Sidenote: Fortunes lap,]

_Ham_. Nor the Soales of her Shoo?

_Rosin_. Neither my Lord.

_Ham_. Then you liue about her waste, or in the
middle of her fauour? [Sidenote: fauors.]

_Guil_. Faith, her priuates, we.

_Ham_. In the secret parts of Fortune? Oh,
most true: she is a Strumpet.[5] What's the newes?
[Sidenote: What newes?]

_Rosin_. None my Lord; but that the World's [Sidenote: but the]
growne honest.

_Ham_. Then is Doomesday neere: But your

[Footnote A: _In the Quarto, the speech ends thus_:--I will leaue him
and my daughter.[6] My Lord, I will take my leaue of you.]

[Footnote 1: From 'And sodainely' _to_ 'betweene him,' _not in Quart