our young days,' or, 'the
sympathies of our present youth.']

[Footnote 6: --_to Guildenstern_.]

[Footnote 7: (_aside_) 'I will keep an eye upon you;'.]

[Footnote 8: 'do not hold back.']

[Footnote 9: The _Quarto_ seems here to have the right reading.]

[Footnote 10: 'your promise of secrecy remain intact;'.]

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other thing to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation
[Sidenote: nothing to me but a]
of vapours. What a piece of worke is [Sidenote: what peece]
a man! how Noble in Reason? how infinite in
faculty? in forme and mouing how expresse and [Sidenote: faculties,]
admirable? in Action, how like an Angel? in apprehension,
how like a God? the beauty of the
world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me,
what is this Quintessence of Dust? Man delights
not me;[1] no, nor Woman neither; though by your
[Sidenote: not me, nor women]
smiling you seeme to say so.[2]

_Rosin._ My Lord, there was no such stuffe in
my thoughts.

_Ham._ Why did you laugh, when I said, Man
[Sidenote: yee laugh then, when]
delights not me?

_Rosin._ To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not
in Man, what Lenton entertainment the Players
shall receiue from you:[3] wee coated them[4] on the
way, and hither are they comming to offer you
Seruice.

_Ham._[5] He that playes the King shall be welcome;
his Maiesty shall haue Tribute of mee: [Sidenote: on me,]
the aduenturous Knight shal vse his Foyle and
Target: the Louer shall not sigh _gratis_, the
humorous man[6] shall end his part in peace: [7] the
Clowne shall make those laugh whose lungs are
tickled a'th' sere:[8] and the Lady shall say her
minde freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't[9]:
[Sidenote: black verse]
what Players are they?

_Rosin._ Euen those you Were wont to take
[Sidenote: take such delight]
delight in the Tragedians of the City.

_Ham._ How chances it they trauaile? their residence
both in reputation and profit was better both
wayes.

_Rosin._ I thinke their Inhibition comes by the
meanes of the late Innouation?[10]

[Footnote 1: A genuine description, so far as it goes, of the state of
Hamlet's mind. But he does not reveal the operating cause--his loss of
faith in women, which has taken the whol