perceiue?

_Hora_. Verie well my Lord.

_Ham_. Vpon the talke of the poysoning?

_Hora_. I did verie well note him.

_Enter Rosincrance and Guildensterne_.[14]

_Ham_. Oh, ha? Come some Musick.[15] Come the Recorders:
[Sidenote: Ah ha,]

[Footnote 1: --in ill suppressed agitation.]

[Footnote 2: _This speech is not in the Quarto_.--Is the 'false fire'
what we now call _stage-fire_?--'What! frighted at a mere play?']

[Footnote 3: The stage--the stage-stage, that is--alone is lighted. Does
the king stagger out blindly, madly, shaking them from him? I think
not--but as if he were taken suddenly ill.]

[Footnote 4: --_singing_--that he may hide his agitation, restrain
himself, and be regarded as careless-mad, until all are safely gone.]

[Footnote 5: --his success with the play.]

[Footnote 6: 'Roses of Provins,' we are told--probably artificial.]

[Footnote 7: The meaning is very doubtful. But for the _raz'd_ of the
_Quarto_, I should suggest _lac'd_. Could it mean _cut low_?]

[Footnote 8: _a share_, as immediately below.]

[Footnote 9: A _cry_ of hounds is a pack. So in _King Lear_, act v. sc.
3, 'packs and sects of great ones.']

[Footnote 10: _I_ for _ay_--that is, _yes_!--He insists on a whole
share.]

[Footnote 11: Again he takes refuge in singing.]

[Footnote 12: The lines are properly measured in the _Quarto_:

For thou doost know oh Damon deere
This Realme dismantled was
Of _Ioue_ himselfe, and now raignes heere
A very very paiock.

By _Jove_, he of course intends _his father_. 170. What 'Paiocke' means,
whether _pagan_, or _peacock_, or _bajocco_, matters nothing, since it
is intended for nonsense.]

[Footnote 13: To rime with _was_, Horatio naturally expected _ass_ to
follow as the end of the last line: in the wanton humour of his
excitement, Hamlet disappointed him.]

[Footnote 14: _In Q. after next speech_.]

[Footnote 15: He hears Rosincrance and Guildensterne coming, and changes
his behaviour--calling for music to end the play with. Either he wants,
under its cover, to finish his talk with Horatio in what is for the
moment the safest place, or he would mask himself before his two false
friends. Since the departure of the king--I would suggest--he has borne
himself with evident apprehension, every now and then glancing about
him, as fearful of what may follow his uncle's recognition of the intent
of the play. T