[Sidenote: But who, a woe, had | mobled[1]]

_Ham_. The inobled[1] Queene? [Sidenote: mobled]

_Pol_. That's good: Inobled[1] Queene is good.[2]

_1. Play_. Run bare-foot vp and downe,
Threatning the flame [Sidenote: flames]
With Bisson Rheume:[3] A clout about that head, [Sidenote: clout vppon]
Where late the Diadem stood, and for a Robe
About her lanke and all ore-teamed Loines,[4]
A blanket in th'Alarum of feare caught vp. [Sidenote: the alarme]
Who this had seene, with tongue in Venome steep'd,
'Gainst Fortunes State, would Treason haue pronounc'd?[5]
But if the Gods themselues did see her then,
When she saw _Pyrrhus_ make malicious sport
In mincing with his Sword her Husbands limbes,[6] [Sidenote: husband]
The instant Burst of Clamour that she made
(Vnlesse things mortall moue them not at all)
Would haue made milche[7] the Burning eyes of Heauen,
And passion in the Gods.[8]

_Pol_. Looke where[9] he ha's not turn'd his colour,
and ha's teares in's eyes. Pray you no more. [Sidenote: prethee]

_Ham_. 'Tis well, He haue thee speake out the
rest, soone. Good my Lord, will you see the [Sidenote: rest of this]
Players wel bestow'd. Do ye heare, let them be [Sidenote: you]
well vs'd: for they are the Abstracts and breefe [Sidenote: abstract]
Chronicles of the time. After your death, you

[Footnote 1: '_mobled_'--also in _1st Q_.--may be the word: _muffled_
seems a corruption of it: compare _mob-cap_, and

'The moon does mobble up herself'

--_Shirley_, quoted by _Farmer_;

but I incline to '_inobled_,' thrice in the _Folio_--once with a
capital: I take it to stand for _'ignobled,' degraded_.]

[Footnote 2: 'Inobled Queene is good.' _Not in Quarto_.]

[Footnote 3: --threatening to put the flames out with blind tears:
'_bisen,' blind_--Ang. Sax.]

[Footnote 4: --she had had so many children.]

[Footnote 5: There should of course be no point of interrogation here.]

[Footnote 6:

This butcher, whilst his hands were yet held up,
Treading upon his breast, struck off his hands.

Marlowe's _Dido, Queen of Carthage_.]

[Footnote 7: '_milche_'--capable of giving milk: here _capable of
tears_, which the burning eyes of the gods were not before.]

[Footnote 8: 'And would have made passion in the Gods.']

[Footnote 9: 'whether'.]

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