]

[Footnote 9: 'here's for the jig-maker! he's the right man!' Or perhaps
he is claiming the part as his own: 'I am your only jig-maker!']

[Footnote 10: This needs not be taken for the exact time. The statement
notwithstanding suggests something like two months between the first and
second acts, for in the first, Hamlet says his father has not been dead
two months. 24. We are not bound to take it for more than a rough
approximation; Ophelia would make the best of things for the queen, who
is very kind to her.]

[Footnote 11: the fur of the sable.]

[Footnote 12: _1st Q._

nay then there's some
Likelyhood, a gentlemans death may outliue memorie,
But by my faith &c.]

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suffer not thinking on, with the Hoby-horsse,
whose Epitaph is, For o, For o, the Hoby-horse
is forgot.

_Hoboyes play. The dumbe shew enters._
[Sidenote: _The Trumpets sounds. Dumbe show followes._]

_Enter a King and Queene, very louingly; the Queene
[Sidenote: _and a Queene, the queen_]
embracing him. She kneeles, and makes shew of
[Sidenote: _embracing him, and he her, he takes her up, and_]
Protestation vnto him. He takes her vp, and
declines his head vpon her neck. Layes him downe
[Sidenote: _necke, he lyes_]
vpon a Banke of Flowers. She seeing him
a-sleepe, leaues him. Anon comes in a Fellow,
[Sidenote: _anon come in an other man_,]
takes off his Crowne, kisses it, and powres poyson
[Sidenote: _it, pours_]
in the Kings eares, and Exits. The Queene returnes,
[Sidenote: _the sleepers eares, and leaues him:_]
findes the King dead, and makes passionate [Sidenote: dead, makes]
Action. The Poysoner, with some two or
[Sidenote: _some three or foure come in againe, seeme
to condole_]
three Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament
with her. The dead body is carried away: The
[Sidenote: _with her, the_]
Poysoner Wooes the Queene with Gifts, she
[Sidenote: 54] seemes loath and vnwilling awhile, but in the end,
[Sidenote: _seemes harsh awhile_,]
accepts his loue.[1] _Exeunt[2]_ [Sidenote: _accepts loue._]

_Ophe._ What meanes this,