den assault of his ever present malady. One who
sees what others cannot see they are always ready to count mad.]

[Footnote 10: able to _take_, that is, to _understand_.]

[Footnote 11: --_to the Ghost_.]

[Footnote 12: 'what is in my power to do.']

[Footnote 13: Note antithesis here: '_your piteous action_;' '_my stern
effects_'--the things, that is, 'which I have to effect.' 'Lest your
piteous show convert--change--my stern doing; then what I do will lack
true colour; the result may be tears instead of blood; I shall weep
instead of striking.']

[Footnote 14: It is one of the constantly recurring delusions of
humanity that we see all there is.]

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[Sidenote: 114] This bodilesse Creation extasie[1] is very cunning
in.[2]

_Ham._ Extasie?[3]
My Pulse as yours doth temperately keepe time,
And makes as healthfull Musicke.[4] It is not madnesse
That I haue vttered; bring me to the Test
And I the matter will re-word: which madnesse [Sidenote: And the]
Would gamboll from. Mother, for loue of Grace,
Lay not a flattering Vnction to your soule,
[Sidenote: not that flattering]
That not your trespasse, but my madnesse speakes:
[Sidenote: 182] It will but skin and filme the Vlcerous place,
Whil'st ranke Corruption mining all within, [Sidenote: whiles]
Infects vnseene, Confesse your selfe to Heauen,
Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come,
And do not spred the Compost or the Weedes, [Sidenote: compost on the]
To make them ranke. Forgiue me this my Vertue, [Sidenote: ranker,]
For in the fatnesse of this pursie[5] times, [Sidenote: these]
Vertue it selfe, of Vice must pardon begge,
Yea courb,[6] and woe, for leaue to do him good.
[Sidenote: curbe and wooe]

_Qu._ Oh Hamlet, [Sidenote: _Ger._]
Thou hast cleft my heart in twaine.

_Ham._ O throw away the worser part of it,
And Liue the purer with the other halfe. [Sidenote: And leaue the]
Good night, but go not to mine Vnkles bed, [Sidenote: my]
Assume a Vertue, if you haue it not,[7][A] refraine to night
[Sidenote: Assune | to refraine night,]
And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

[8]That monster custome, who all sence doth eate
Of habits deuill,[9] is angell yet in this
That to the vse of actions fair