port while you liued.[1] [Sidenote: live]

_Pol_. My Lord, I will vse them according to
their desart.

_Ham_. Gods bodykins man, better. Vse euerie
[Sidenote: bodkin man, much better,]
man after his desart, and who should scape whipping:
[Sidenote: shall]
vse them after your own Honor and Dignity.
The lesse they deserue, the more merit is in
your bountie. Take them in.

_Pol_. Come sirs. _Exit Polon_.[2]

_Ham_. Follow him Friends: wee'l heare a play
to morrow.[3] Dost thou heare me old Friend, can
you play the murther of _Gonzago_?

_Play_. I my Lord.

_Ham_. Wee'l ha't to morrow night. You could
for a need[4] study[5] a speech of some dosen or sixteene
[Sidenote: for neede | dosen lines, or]
lines, which I would set downe, and insert
in't? Could ye not?[6] [Sidenote: you]

_Play_. I my Lord.

_Ham_. Very well. Follow that Lord, and looke
you mock him not.[7] My good Friends, Ile leaue
you til night you are welcome to _Elsonower_?
[Sidenote: _Exeuent Pol. and Players_.]

_Rosin_. Good my Lord. _Exeunt_.

_Manet Hamlet_.[8]

_Ham_. I so, God buy'ye[9]: Now I am alone. [Sidenote: buy to you,[9]]
Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slaue am I?[10]
Is it not monstrous that this Player heere,[11]
But in a Fixion, in a dreame of Passion,
Could force his soule so to his whole conceit,[12]
[Sidenote: his own conceit]
That from her working, all his visage warm'd;
[Sidenote: all the visage wand,]
Teares in his eyes, distraction in's Aspect, [Sidenote: in his]
A broken voyce, and his whole Function suiting [Sidenote: an his]
With Formes, to his Conceit?[13] And all for nothing?

[Footnote 1: Why do the editors choose the present tense of the
_Quarto_? Hamlet does not mean, 'It is worse to have the ill report of
the Players while you live, than a bad epitaph after your death.' The
order of the sentence has provided against that meaning. What he means
is, that their ill report in life will be more against your reputation
after death than a bad epitaph.]

[Footnote 2: _Not in Quarto_.]

[Footnote 3: He detains their leader.]

[Footnote 4: 'for a special reason'.]

[Footnote 5: _St