note: And I of]
That suck'd the Honie of his Musicke Vowes: [Sidenote: musickt]
Now see that Noble, and most Soueraigne Reason, [Sidenote: see what]
Like sweet Bels iangled out of tune, and harsh,[7]
[Sidenote: out of time]
That vnmatch'd Forme and Feature of blowne youth,[8]
[Sidenote: and stature of]
Blasted with extasie.[9] Oh woe is me,
T'haue scene what I haue scene: see what I see.[10]
[Sidenote: _Exit_.]

_Enter King, and Polonius_.

_King_. Loue? His affections do not that way tend,
Nor what he spake, though it lack'd Forme a little, [Sidenote: Not]
Was not like Madnesse.[11] There's something in his soule?
O're which his Melancholly sits on brood,
And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose[12]
Will be some danger,[11] which to preuent [Sidenote: which for to]
I haue in quicke determination
[Sidenote: 138, 180] Thus set it downe. He shall with speed to England
For the demand of our neglected Tribute:
Haply the Seas and Countries different

[Footnote 1: 'The thing must be put a stop to! the world must cease! it
is not fit to go on.']

[Footnote 2: 'already--(_aside_) all but one--shall live.']

[Footnote 3: _1st Q_.

_Ofe._ Great God of heauen, what a quicke change is this?
The Courtier, Scholler, Souldier, all in him,
All dasht and splinterd thence, O woe is me,
To a seene what I haue seene, see what I see. _Exit_.

To his cruel words Ophelia is impenetrable--from the conviction that not
he but his madness speaks.

The moment he leaves her, she breaks out in such phrase as a young girl
would hardly have used had she known that the king and her father were
listening. I grant, however, the speech may be taken as a soliloquy
audible to the spectators only, who to the persons of a play are _but_
the spiritual presences.]

[Footnote 4: 'The hope and flower'--The _rose_ is not unfrequently used
in English literature as the type of perfection.]

[Footnote 5: 'he by whom Fashion dressed herself'--_he who set the
fashion_. His great and small virtues taken together, Hamlet makes us
think of Sir Philip Sidney--ten years older than Shakspere, and dead
sixteen years before _Hamlet_ was written.]

[Footnote 6: 'he after whose ways, or modes of behaviour, men shaped
theirs'--therefore the mould in which their forms were cast