did.[6]

_Laer_. A Norman was't?

_Kin_. A Norman.

_Laer_. Vpon my life _Lamound_. [Sidenote: _Lamord_.]

_Kin_. The very same.

_Laer_. I know him well, he is the Brooch indeed,
And Iemme of all our Nation, [Sidenote: all the Nation.]

_Kin_. Hee mad confession of you,
And gaue you such a Masterly report,
For Art and exercise in your defence;
And for your Rapier most especially, [Sidenote: especiall,]
That he cryed out, t'would be a sight indeed,[7]
If one could match you [A] Sir. This report of his
[Sidenote: ; sir this]
[Sidenote: 120, 264] Did _Hamlet_ so envenom with his Enuy,[8]
That he could nothing doe but wish and begge,
Your sodaine comming ore to play with him;[9] [Sidenote: with you]
Now out of this.[10]

_Laer_. Why out of this, my Lord? [Sidenote: What out]

_Kin. Laertes_ was your Father deare to you?
Or are you like the painting[11] of a sorrow,
A face without a heart?

_Laer_. Why aske you this?

_Kin_. Not that I thinke you did not loue your Father,
But that I know Loue is begun by Time[12]:

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto:--_

; the Scrimures[13] of their nation
He swore had neither motion, guard nor eye,
If you opposd them;]

[Footnote 1: I think the _can_ of the _Quarto_ is the true word.]

[Footnote 2: --in his horsemanship.]

[Footnote 3: There is no mistake in the order 'had he beene'; the
transposition is equivalent to _if_: 'as if he had been unbodied with,
and shared half the nature of the brave beast.'

These two lines, from _As_ to _thought_, must be taken parenthetically;
or else there must be supposed a dash after _Beast_, and a fresh start
made.

'But he (as if Centaur-like he had been one piece with the horse) was no
more moved than one with the going of his own legs:'

'it seemed, as he borrowed the horse's body, so he lent the horse his
mind:'--Sir Philip Sidney. _Arcadia_, B. ii. p. 115.]

[Footnote 4: '--surpassed, I thought.']

[Footnote 5: 'in invention of.']

[Footnote 6: Emphasis on _did_, as antithetic to _forgery_: 'my
inventing came short of his doing.']

[Footnote 7: 'it would be a sight indeed to see you matched with an
equal.' The king would strengthen Laertes' confidence in his
proficiency.]

[Footnote 8: 'made him so spiteful by stirring up his habitual envy.']

[Footnote 9: All invention.