Whereas[14] they had deliuer'd both in time,

[Footnote 1: _Dear_ is not unfrequently used as an intensive; but 'my
dearest foe' is not 'the man who hates me most,' but 'the man whom most
I regard as my foe.']

[Footnote 2: Note Hamlet's trouble: the marriage, not the death, nor the
supplantation.]

[Footnote 3: --with a little surprise at Horatio's question.]

[Footnote 4: Said as if he must have misheard. Astonishment comes only
with the next speech.]

[Footnote 5: _1st Q_. 'Ha, ha, the King my father ke you.']

[Footnote 6: Qualify.]

[Footnote 7: _1st Q_. 'an attentiue eare,'.]

[Footnote 8: Possibly, _dead vast_, as in _1st Q_.; but _waste_ as good,
leaving also room to suppose a play in the word.]

[Footnote 9: Note the careful uncertainty.]

[Footnote 10: _1st Q. 'Capapea_.']

[Footnote 11: Either word would do: the _distilling_ off of the animal
spirits would leave the man a jelly; the cold of fear would _bestil_
them and him to a jelly. _1st Q. distilled_. But I judge _bestil'd_ the
better, as the truer to the operation of fear. Compare _The Winter's
Tale_, act v. sc. 3:--

There's magic in thy majesty, which has

From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,
Standing like stone with thee.]

[Footnote 12: Act: present influence.]

[Footnote 13: a secrecy more than solemn.]

[Footnote 14: 'Where, as'.]

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Forme of the thing; each word made true and good,
The Apparition comes. I knew your Father:
These hands are not more like.

_Ham_. But where was this?

_Mar_. My Lord, vpon the platforme where we watcht. [Sidenote: watch]

_Ham_. Did you not speake to it?

_Her_. My Lord, I did;
But answere made it none: yet once me thought
It lifted vp it head, and did addresse
It selfe to motion, like as it would speake:
But euen then, the Morning Cocke crew lowd;
And at the sound it shrunke in hast away,
And vanisht from our sight.

_Ham_. Tis very strange.

_Hor_. As I doe liue my honourd Lord 'tis true;
[Sidenote: 14] And we did thinke it writ downe in our duty
To let you know of it.

[Sidenote: 32,52] _Ham_. Indeed, indeed Sirs; but this troubles me.
[Sidenote: Indeede Sirs but]
Hold you the watch to Night?

_Both_. We doe my Lord. [Sidenote: _All_.]

_Ham_. Arm'd, say you?

_Both_. Arm'd, my Lord. [Sidenote: _All_.]

_Ham_. From top to toe?

_Both_. M