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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