catch Woodcocks.[1] I doe know
[Sidenote: springs]
When the Bloud burnes, how Prodigall the Soule[2]
Giues the tongue vowes: these blazes, Daughter, [Sidenote: Lends the]
Giuing more light then heate; extinct in both,[3]
Euen in their promise, as it is a making;
You must not take for fire. For this time Daughter,[4]
[Sidenote: fire, from this]
Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; [Sidenote: something]
Set your entreatments[5] at a higher rate,
Then a command to parley. For Lord _Hamlet_, [Sidenote: parle;]
Beleeue so much in him, that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walke, [Sidenote: tider]
Then may be giuen you. In few,[6] _Ophelia_,
Doe not beleeue his vowes; for they are Broakers,
Not of the eye,[7] which their Inuestments show:
[Sidenote: of that die]
But meere implorators of vnholy Sutes, [Sidenote: imploratators]
Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds,
The better to beguile. This is for all:[8] [Sidenote: beguide]
I would not, in plaine tearmes, from this time forth,
Haue you so slander any moment leisure,[9]
[Sidenote: 70, 82] As to giue words or talke with the Lord _Hamlet_:[10]
Looke too't, I charge you; come your wayes.
_Ophe_. I shall obey my Lord.[11] _Exeunt_.
_Enter Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus._ [Sidenote: _and Marcellus_]
[Sidenote: 2] _Ham_. [12]The Ayre bites shrewdly: is it very cold?[13]
_Hor_. It is a nipping and an eager ayre.
_Ham_. What hower now?
_Hor_. I thinke it lacks of twelue.
_Mar_. No, it is strooke.
_Hor_. Indeed I heard it not: then it drawes neere the season,
[Sidenote: it then]
Wherein the Spirit held his wont to walke.
What does this meane my Lord? [14]
[Sidenote: _A flourish of trumpets and 2 peeces goes of._[14]]
[Footnote 1: Woodcocks were understood to have no brains.]
[Footnote 2: _1st Q_. 'How prodigall the tongue lends the heart vowes.'
I was inclined to take _Prodigall_ for a noun, a proper name or epithet
given to the soul, as in a moral play: _Prodigall, the soul_; but I
conclude it only an adjective used as an adverb, and the capital P a
blunder.]
[Footnote 3: --in both light and heat.]
[Footnote 4: The _Quarto_ has not 'Daughter.']
[Footnote 5: _T
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