tnote 9: He wants to show him that he has nothing behind--that he is
open with him: he will read without having pre-read.]

[Footnote 10: _Not in Q._]

[Footnote 11: He makes this request for an interview with the intent of
killing him. The king takes care he does not have it.]

[Footnote 12: '_more strange than sudden_.']

[Footnote 13: _Not in Q._]

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Or is it some abuse?[1] Or no such thing?[2]
[Sidenote: abuse, and no[2]]

_Laer_. Know you the hand?[3]

_Kin_. 'Tis _Hamlets_ Character, naked and in a
Postscript here he sayes alone:[4] Can you aduise [Sidenote: deuise me?]
me?[5]

_Laer_. I'm lost in it my Lord; but let him come, [Sidenote: I am]
It warmes the very sicknesse in my heart,
That I shall liue and tell him to his teeth; [Sidenote: That I liue and]
Thus diddest thou. [Sidenote: didst]

_Kin_. If it be so _Laertes_, as how should it be so:[6]
How otherwise will you be rul'd by me?

_Laer_. If so[7] you'l not o'rerule me to a peace.
[Sidenote: I my Lord, so you will not]

_Kin_. To thine owne peace: if he be now return'd,
[Sidenote: 195] As checking[8] at his Voyage, and that he meanes
[Sidenote: As the King[8] at his]
No more to vndertake it; I will worke him
To an exployt now ripe in my Deuice, [Sidenote: deuise,]
Vnder the which he shall not choose but fall;
And for his death no winde of blame shall breath,
[Sidenote: 221] But euen his Mother shall vncharge the practice,[9]
And call it accident: [A] Some two Monthes hence[10]
[Sidenote: two months since]
Here was a Gentleman of _Normandy_,
I'ue seene my selfe, and seru'd against the French, [Sidenote: I haue]

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

_Laer_. My Lord I will be rul'd,
The rather if you could deuise it so
That I might be the organ.

_King_. It falls right,
You haue beene talkt of since your trauaile[11] much,
And that in _Hamlets_ hearing, for a qualitie
Wherein they say you shine, your summe of parts[12]
Did not together plucke such enuie from him
As did that one, and that in my regard
Of the vnworthiest siedge.[13]

_Laer_. What part is that my Lord?

_King_. A very ribaud[14] in the cap of youth,
Yet needfull to, for youth no lesse becomes[15]
The light and carelesse liuery that it weare