llowing speech ought by the
printers to have been omitted also: without the preceding two speeches
of the Quarto they are not accounted for.]

[Footnote 3: a royal progress.]

[Footnote 4: Hamlet's philosophy deals much now with the worthlessness
of all human distinctions and affairs.]

[Footnote 5: 'and we care for your safety as much as we grieve for the
death of Polonius.']

[Footnote 6: 'With fierie Quicknesse.' _Not in Quarto._]

[Footnote 7: fair--ready to help.]

[Footnote 8: attend, wait.]

[Footnote 9: pretending despair over his madness.]

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_Ham._ For England?

_King._ I _Hamlet_.

_Ham._ Good.

_King._ So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.

_Ham._ I see a Cherube that see's him: but [Sidenote: sees them,]
come, for England. Farewell deere Mother.

_King._ Thy louing Father _Hamlet_.

_Hamlet._ My Mother: Father and Mother is
man and wife: man and wife is one flesh, and so [Sidenote: flesh, so my]
my mother.[1] Come, for England. _Exit_

[Sidenote: 195] _King._ Follow him at foote,[2]
Tempt him with speed aboord:
Delay it not, He haue him hence to night.
Away, for euery thing is Seal'd and done
That else leanes on[3] th'Affaire pray you make hast.
And England, if my loue thou holdst at ought,
As my great power thereof may giue thee sense,
Since yet thy Cicatrice lookes raw and red[4]
After the Danish Sword, and thy free awe
Payes homage to vs[5]; thou maist not coldly set[6]
Our Soueraigne Processe,[7] which imports at full
By Letters conjuring to that effect [Sidenote: congruing]
The present death of _Hamlet_. Do it England,
For like the Hecticke[8] in my blood he rages,
And thou must cure me: Till I know 'tis done,
How ere my happes,[9] my ioyes were ne're begun.[10]
[Sidenote: ioyes will nere begin.]
_Exit_[11]

[Sidenote: 274] [12]_Enter Fortinbras with an Armie._
[Sidenote: with his Army ouer the stage.]

_For._ Go Captaine, from me greet the Danish King,
Tell him that by his license, _Fortinbras_
[Sidenote: 78] Claimes the conueyance[13] of a promis'd March
[Sidenote: Craues the]
Ouer his Kingdome. You know the Rendeuous:[14]

[Footnote 1: He will not touch the hand of his father's murderer.]

[Footnote 2: 'at his heels.']

[Footnote 3: 'belongs to.']

[Footnote 4: 'as my gr