?[7]

_Both_. Wee'l wait vpon you.

_Ham_. No such matter.[8] I will not sort you
with the rest of my seruants: for to speake to you
like an honest man: I am most dreadfully attended;[9]
but in the beaten way of friendship,[10] [Sidenote: But in]

What make you at _Elsonower_?

[Footnote 1: 'it is not true that the world is grown honest': he doubts
themselves. His eye is sharper because his heart is sorer since he left
Wittenberg. He proceeds to examine them.]

[Footnote 2: This passage, beginning with 'Let me question,' and ending
with 'dreadfully attended,' is not in the _Quarto_.

Who inserted in the Folio this and other passages? Was it or was it not
Shakspere? Beyond a doubt they are Shakspere's all. Then who omitted
those omitted? Was Shakspere incapable of refusing any of his own work?
Or would these editors, who profess to have all opportunity, and who,
belonging to the theatre, must have had the best of opportunities, have
desired or dared to omit what far more painstaking editors have since
presumed, though out of reverence, to restore?]

[Footnote 3: 'but it is thinking that makes it so:']

[Footnote 4: --feeling after the cause of Hamlet's strangeness, and
following the readiest suggestion, that of chagrin at missing the
succession.]

[Footnote 5: objects and aims.]

[Footnote 6: _foi_.]

[Footnote 7: Does he choose beggars as the representatives of substance
because they lack ambition--that being shadow? Or does he take them as
the shadows of humanity, that, following Rosincrance, he may get their
shadows, the shadows therefore of shadows, to parallel _monarchs_ and
_heroes_? But he is not satisfied with his own analogue--therefore will
to the court, where good logic is not wanted--where indeed he knows a
hellish lack of reason.]

[Footnote 8: 'On no account.']

[Footnote 9: 'I have very bad servants.' Perhaps he judges his servants
spies upon him. Or might he mean that he was _haunted with bad
thoughts_? Or again, is it a stroke of his pretence of
madness--suggesting imaginary followers?]

[Footnote: 10: 'to speak plainly, as old friends.']

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_Rosin_. To visit you my Lord, no other occasion.

_Ham_. Begger that I am, I am euen poore in [Sidenote: am ever poore]
thankes; but I thanke you: and sure deare friends
my thanks are too deare a halfepeny[1]; were you
[Sidenote: 72] not sent for? Is it your owne inclining? Is it a
free visitation?[2] Come, deale iust