Most humbly doe I take my leaue, my Lord.

_Polon_. The time inuites you, goe, your seruants tend.
[Sidenote: time inuests]

_Laer._ Farewell _Ophelia_, and remember well
What I haue said to you.[14]

_Ophe_. Tis in my memory lockt,
And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it,

_Laer_. Farewell. _Exit Laer_.

_Polon_. What ist _Ophelia_ he hath said to you?

[Footnote 1: He hurries him to go, yet immediately begins to prose.]

[Footnote 2: Engrave.]

[Footnote 3: Not settled into its true shape (?) or, out of proportion
with its occasions (?)--I cannot say which.]

[Footnote 4: 'Cultivate close relations, but do not lie open to common
access.' 'Have choice intimacies, but do not be _hail, fellow! well met_
with everybody.' What follows is an expansion of the lesson.]

[Footnote 5: 'The friends thou hast--and the choice of them justified by
trial--'_equal to_: 'provided their choice be justified &c.']

[Footnote 6: 'Do not make the palm hard, and dull its touch of
discrimination, by shaking hands in welcome with every one that turns
up.']

[Footnote 7: judgment, opinion.]

[Footnote 8: _Generosus_, of good breed, a gentleman.]

[Footnote 9: _1st Q_. 'generall chiefe.']

[Footnote 10: No doubt the omission of _of a_ gives the right number of
syllables to the verse, and makes room for the interpretation which a
dash between _generous_ and _chief_ renders clearer: 'Are most select
and generous--chief in that,'--'are most choice and well-bred--chief,
indeed--at the head or top, in the matter of dress.' But without
_necessity_ or _authority_--one of the two, I would not throw away a
word; and suggest therefore that Shakspere had here the French idiom _de
son chef_ in his mind, and qualifies the noun in it with adjectives of
his own. The Academy Dictionary gives _de son propre mouvement_ as one
interpretation of the phrase. The meaning would be, 'they are of a most
choice and developed instinct in dress.' _Cheff_ or _chief_ suggests the
upper third of the heraldic shield, but I cannot persuade the suggestion
to further development. The hypercatalectic syllables _of a_, swiftly
spoken, matter little to the verse, especially as it is _dramatic_.]

[Footnote 11: Those that borrow, having to pay, lose heart for saving.

'There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.'--_Macbeth_, ii. 1.]

[Footnote 12: Certainly a man cannot be true to