]

[Footnote 10: Here should be a dash: the king pauses. He is approaching
dangerous ground--is about to propose a thing abominable, and therefore
to the influence of flattered vanity and roused emulation, would add the
fiercest heat of stimulated love and hatred--to which end he proceeds to
cast doubt on the quality of Laertes' love for his father.]

[Footnote 11: the picture.]

[Footnote 12: 'through habit.']

[Footnote 13: French _escrimeurs_: fencers.]

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And that I see in passages of proofe,[1]
Time qualifies the sparke and fire of it:[2]
[A]
_Hamlet_ comes backe: what would you vndertake,
To show your selfe your Fathers sonne indeed,
[Sidenote: selfe indeede your fathers sonne]
More then in words?

_Laer_. To cut his throat i'th'Church.[3]

_Kin_. No place indeed should murder Sancturize;
Reuenge should haue no bounds: but good _Laertes_
Will you doe this, keepe close within your Chamber,
_Hamlet_ return'd, shall know you are come home:
Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence,
And set a double varnish on the fame
The Frenchman gaue you, bring you in fine together,
And wager on your heads, he being remisse,[4] [Sidenote: ore your]
[Sidenote: 218] Most generous, and free from all contriuing,
Will not peruse[5] the Foiles? So that with ease,
Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
A Sword vnbaited,[6] and in a passe of practice,[7] [Sidenote: pace of]
Requit him for your Father.

_Laer_. I will doo't,
And for that purpose Ile annoint my Sword:[8] [Sidenote: for purpose,]
I bought an Vnction of a Mountebanke
So mortall, I but dipt a knife in it,[9]
[Sidenote: mortall, that but dippe a]
Where it drawes blood, no Cataplasme so rare,
Collected from all Simples that haue Vertue

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

There liues within the very flame of loue
A kind of weeke or snufe that will abate it,[10]
And nothing is at a like goodnes still,[11]
For goodnes growing to a plurisie,[12]
Dies in his owne too much, that we would doe
We should doe when we would: for this would change,[13]
And hath abatements and delayes as many,
As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents,
And then this should is like a spend thrifts sigh,
That hurts by easing;[14] but to the quick of th'vlcer,]

[Footnote 1: 'passages of proofe,'--_trials_. 'I see when it is put to
the test.']

[Footnote 2: 'time modifies it.']

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