him about his diet. His talk
has at once become wild; ere the king enters he has donned his cloak of
madness. Here he confesses to ambition--will favour any notion
concerning himself rather than give ground for suspecting the real state
of his mind and feeling.

In the _1st Q._ 'the Camelions dish' almost appears to mean the play,
not the king's promises.]

[Footnote 9: In some places they push food down the throats of the
poultry they want to fatten, which is technically, I believe, called
_cramming_ them.]

[Footnote 10: 'You have not taken me with you; I have not laid hold of
your meaning; I have nothing by your answer.' 'Your words have not
become my property; they have not given themselves to me in their
meaning.']

[Footnote 11: _Point thus_: 'No, nor mine now.--My Lord,' &c. '--not
mine, now I have uttered them, for so I have given them away.' Or does
he mean to disclaim their purport?]

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_Ham._ And[1] what did you enact?

_Pol._ I did enact _Iulius Caesar_, I was kill'd
i'th'Capitol: _Brutus_ kill'd me.

_Ham._ It was a bruite part of him, to kill so
Capitall a Calfe there.[2] Be the Players ready?

_Rosin._ I my Lord, they stay vpon your patience.

_Qu._ Come hither my good _Hamlet_, sit by me. [Sidenote: my deere]

_Ham._ No good Mother, here's Mettle more attractiue.[3]

_Pol._ Oh ho, do you marke that?[4]

_Ham._ Ladie, shall I lye in your Lap?

_Ophe._ No my Lord.

_Ham._ I meane, my Head vpon your Lap?[5]

_Ophe._ I my Lord.[6]

_Ham._ Do you thinke I meant Country[7] matters?

_Ophe._ I thinke nothing, my Lord.

_Ham._ That's a faire thought to ly between
Maids legs.

_Ophe._ What is my Lord?

_Ham._ Nothing.

_Ophe._ You are merrie, my Lord?

_Ham._ Who I?

_Ophe._ I my Lord.[8]

_Ham._ Oh God, your onely Iigge-maker[9]: what
should a man do, but be merrie. For looke you
how cheerefully my Mother lookes, and my Father
dyed within's two Houres.

[Sidenote: 65] _Ophe._ Nay, 'tis twice two moneths, my Lord.[10]

_Ham._ So long? Nay then let the Diuel weare
[Sidenote: 32] blacke, for Ile haue a suite of Sables.[11] Oh
Heauens! dye two moneths ago, and not forgotten
yet?[12] Then there's hope, a great mans Memorie,
may out-liue his life halfe a yeare: But byrlady [Sidenote: ber Lady a]
he must builde Churches then: or else shall he [Sidenote: shall a]

[Footnote 1: 'And ' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 2: Emphasis on _there_. 'There' is not in _1st Q