_Ham._ My fate cries out,
And makes each petty Artire[4] in this body, [Sidenote: arture[4]]
As hardy as the Nemian Lions nerue:
Still am I cal'd? Vnhand me Gentlemen:
By Heau'n, Ile make a Ghost of him that lets me:
I say away, goe on, Ile follow thee.

_Exeunt Ghost & Hamlet._

_Hor._ He waxes desperate with imagination.[5] [Sidenote: imagion]

_Mar._ Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.

_Hor._ Haue after, to what issue will this come?

_Mar._ Something is rotten in the State of Denmarke.

_Hor._ Heauen will direct it.

_Mar._ Nay, let's follow him. _Exeunt._

_Enter Ghost and Hamlet._

_Ham._ Where wilt thou lead me? speak; Ile go no further.
[Sidenote: Whether]

_Gho._ Marke me.

_Ham._ I will.

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

The very place puts toyes of desperation
Without more motiue, into euery braine
That lookes so many fadoms to the sea
And heares it rore beneath.]

[Footnote 1: _1st Q_. 'beckles'--perhaps for _buckles--bends_.]

[Footnote 2: Note the unbelief in the Ghost.]

[Footnote 3: sovereignty--_soul_: so in _Romeo and Juliet_, act v. sc.
1, l. 3:--

My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne.]

[Footnote 4: The word _artery_, invariably substituted by the editors,
is without authority. In the first Quarto, the word is _Artiue_; in the
second (see margin) _arture_. This latter I take to be the right
one--corrupted into _Artire_ in the Folio. It seems to have troubled the
printers, and possibly the editors. The third Q. has followed the
second; the fourth has _artyre_; the fifth Q. and the fourth F. have
_attire_; the second and third Folios follow the first. Not until the
sixth Q. does _artery_ appear. See _Cambridge Shakespeare. Arture_ was
to all concerned, and to the language itself, a new word. That _artery_
was not Shakspere's intention might be concluded from its unfitness:
what propriety could there be in _making an artery hardy_? The sole,
imperfect justification I was able to think of for such use of the word
arose from the fact that, before the discovery of the circulation of the
blood (published in 1628), it was believed that the arteries (found
empty after death) served for the movements of the animal spirits: this
might vaguely _associate_ the arteries with _courage_. But the sight of
the word _arture_ in the second Quarto at once relieved me.

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