a careless correction, leaving the sense as well as the
construction obscure: 'Women's fear and love keep the scales level; in
_neither_ is there ought, or in _both_ there is fulness;' or: 'there is
no moderation in their fear and their love; either they have _none_ of
either, or they have _excess_ of both.' Perhaps he tried to express both
ideas at once. But compression is always in danger of confusion.]

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_King._ Faith I must leaue thee Loue, and shortly too:
My operant Powers my Functions leaue to do: [Sidenote: their functions]
And thou shall liue in this faire world behinde,
Honour'd, belou'd, and haply, one as kinde.
For Husband shalt thou----

_Bap._ Oh confound the rest: [Sidenote: _Quee._]
Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest:
In second Husband, let me be accurst,
None wed the second, but who kill'd the first.[1]

_Ham._ Wormwood, Wormwood. [Sidenote: _Ham_. That's wormwood[2]]

_Bapt._ The instances[3] that second Marriage moue,
Are base respects of Thrift,[4] but none of Loue.
A second time, I kill my Husband dead,
When second Husband kisses me in Bed.

_King._ I do beleeue you. Think what now you speak:
But what we do determine, oft we breake:
Purpose is but the slaue to Memorie,[5]
Of violent Birth, but poore validitie:[6]
Which now like Fruite vnripe stickes on the Tree,
[Sidenote: now the fruite]
But fall vnshaken, when they mellow bee.[7]
Most necessary[8] 'tis, that we forget
To pay our selues, what to our selues is debt:
What to our selues in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
The violence of other Greefe or Ioy, [Sidenote: eyther,]
Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy: [Sidenote: ennactures]
Where Ioy most Reuels, Greefe doth most lament;
Greefe ioyes, Ioy greeues on slender accident.[9]
[Sidenote: Greefe ioy ioy griefes]
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That euen our Loues should with our Fortunes change.
For 'tis a question left vs yet to proue,
Whether Loue lead Fortune, or else Fortune Loue.

[Footnote 1: Is this to be supposed in the original play, or inserted by
Hamlet, embodying an unuttered and yet more fearful doubt with regard to
his mother?]

[Footnote 2: This speech is on the margin in the _Quarto_, and the
Queene's speech runs on without break.]

[Footnote 3: the urge