. 1.]

[Footnote 7: 'wherein Necessity, beggared of material, will not scruple
to whisper invented accusations against us.']

[Footnote 8: --the name given to a certain small cannon--perhaps charged
with various missiles, hence the better figuring the number and variety
of 'sorrows' he has just recounted.]

[Footnote 9: _This line not in Q._]

[Footnote 10: Note that the king is well guarded, and Hamlet had to lay
his account with great risk in the act of killing him.]

[Footnote 11: _border, as of cloth_: the mounds thrown up to keep the sea out.
The figure here specially fits a Dane.]

[Footnote 12: I do not know whether this word means _pitiless_, or
stands for _impetuous_. The _Quarto_ has one _t_.]

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Then young _Laertes_, in a Riotous head,[1]
Ore-beares your Officers, the rabble call him Lord,
And as the world were now but to begin,
Antiquity forgot, Custome not knowne,
The Ratifiers and props of euery word,[2]
[Sidenote: 62] They cry choose we? _Laertes_ shall be King,[3]
[Sidenote: The cry]
Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds,
_Laertes_ shall be King, _Laertes_ King.

_Qu_. How cheerefully on the false Traile they cry,
[Sidenote: _A noise within_.]
Oh this is Counter you false Danish Dogges.[4]

_Noise within. Enter Laertes_[5]. [Sidenote: _Laertes with others_.]

_King_. The doores are broke.

_Laer_. Where is the King, sirs? Stand you all without.
[Sidenote: this King? sirs stand]

_All_. No, let's come in.

_Laer_. I pray you giue me leaue.[6]

_All_. We will, we will.

_Laer_. I thanke you: Keepe the doore.
Oh thou vilde King, giue me my Father.

_Qu_. Calmely good _Laertes_.

_Laer_. That drop of blood, that calmes[7] [Sidenote: thats calme]
Proclaimes me Bastard:
Cries Cuckold to my Father, brands the Harlot
Euen heere betweene the chaste vnsmirched brow
Of my true Mother.[8]

_Kin_. What is the cause _Laertes_,
That thy Rebellion lookes so Gyant-like?
Let him go _Gertrude_: Do not feare[9] our person:
There's such Diuinity doth hedge a King,[10]
That Treason can but peepe to what it would,
Acts little of his will.[11] Tell me _Laertes_,

[Footnote 1: _Head_ is a rising or gathering of people--generally
rebellious, I think.]

[Footnote 2: Antiquity and Custom.]

[Footnote 3: This refers to the election o