has dropped out
between the fifth and sixth. Anything like this would restore the
connection:

_The labouring heavens themselves teemed dire portent_
As starres &c.]

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Ile crosse it, though it blast me.[1] Stay Illusion:[2]
[Sidenote: _It[4] spreads his armes_.]
If thou hast any sound, or vse of Voyce,[3]
Speake to me. If there be any good thing to be done,
That may to thee do ease, and grace to me; speak to me.
If thou art priuy to thy Countries Fate
(Which happily foreknowing may auoyd) Oh speake.
Or, if thou hast vp-hoorded in thy life
Extorted Treasure in the wombe of Earth,
(For which, they say, you Spirits oft walke in death) [Sidenote: your]
[Sidenote: _The cocke crowes_]
Speake of it. Stay, and speake. Stop it _Marcellus_.

_Mar_. Shall I strike at it with my Partizan? [Sidenote: strike it with]

_Hor_. Do, if it will not stand.

_Barn_. 'Tis heere.

_Hor_. 'Tis heere.

_Mar_. 'Tis gone. _Exit Ghost_[5]
We do it wrong, being so Maiesticall[6]
To offer it the shew of Violence,
For it is as the Ayre, invulnerable,
And our vaine blowes, malicious Mockery.

_Barn_. It was about to speake, when the Cocke crew.

_Hor_. And then it started, like a guilty thing
Vpon a fearfull Summons. I haue heard,
The Cocke that is the Trumpet to the day, [Sidenote: to the morne,]
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding Throate[7]
Awake the God of Day: and at his warning,
Whether in Sea, or Fire, in Earth, or Ayre,
Th'extrauagant,[8] and erring[9] Spirit, hyes
To his Confine. And of the truth heerein,
This present Obiect made probation.[10]

_Mar_. It faded on the crowing of the Cocke.[11]

[Footnote 1: There are various tales of the blasting power of evil
ghosts.]

[Footnote 2: Plain doubt, and strong.]

[Footnote 3: 'sound of voice, or use of voice': physical or mental
faculty of speech.]

[Footnote 4: I judge this _It_ a mistake for _H._, standing for
_Horatio_: he would stop it.]

[Footnote 5: _Not in Q._]

[Footnote 6: 'As we cannot hurt it, our blows are a mockery; and it is
wrong to mock anything so majestic': _For_ belongs to _shew_; 'We do it
wrong, being so majestical, to offer it what is but a _show_ of
violence, for it is, &c.']

[Footnote 7: _1st Q._ 'his earely and shrill crowing throate.']

[Footnote 8: straying beyond bounds.]

[Footnote 9: wandering.]

[Footnote 10: 'gave proof.']