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t: when in your motion you are hot and dry, [Sidenote: hate, when] As[7] make your bowts more violent to the end,[8] [Sidenote: to that end,] And that he cals for drinke; Ile haue prepar'd him [Sidenote: prefard him] [Sidenote: 268] A Challice for the nonce[9]; whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,[10] Our purpose may[11] hold there: how sweet Queene. [Sidenote: there: but stay, what noyse?] _Enter Queene_. _Queen_. One woe doth tread vpon anothers heele, So fast they'l follow[12]: your Sister's drown'd _Laertes_. [Sidenote: they follow;] _Laer_. Drown'd! O where?[13] _Queen_. There is a Willow[14] growes aslant a Brooke, [Sidenote: ascaunt the Brooke] That shewes his hore leaues in the glassie streame: [Sidenote: horry leaues] There with fantasticke Garlands did she come,[15] [Sidenote: Therewith | she make] Of Crow-flowers,[16] Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples, That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name; But our cold Maids doe Dead Mens Fingers call them: [Sidenote: our cull-cold] There on the pendant[17] boughes, her Coronet weeds[18] Clambring to hang;[19] an enuious sliuer broke,[20] When downe the weedy Trophies,[19] and her selfe, [Sidenote: her weedy] [Footnote 1: 'that though I should gall him but slightly,' or, 'that if I gall him ever so slightly.'] [Footnote 2: proper arrangement.] [Footnote 3: 'fit us exactly, like a garment cut to our shape,' or perhaps 'shape' is used for _intent, purpose. Point thus_: 'shape. If this should faile, And' &c.] [Footnote 4: This seems to allude to the assay of a firearm, and to mean '_burst on the trial_.' Note 'assaid' two lines back.] [Footnote 5: There should be a pause here, and a longer pause after _commings_: the king is contriving. 'I ha't' should have a line to itself, with again a pause, but a shorter one.] [Footnote 6: _Veney, venue_, is a term of fencing: a bout, a thrust--from _venir, to come_--whence 'commings.' (259) But _cunnings_, meaning _skills_, may be the word.] [Footnote 7: 'As' is here equivalent to 'and so.'] [Footnote 8: --to the end of making
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