ver been gathered of the words _made_ by
Shakspere: here is one of them--_arture_, from the same root as _artus,
a joint--arcere, to hold together_, adjective _arctus, tight. Arture_,
then, stands for _juncture_. This perfectly fits. In terror the weakest
parts are the joints, for their _artures_ are not _hardy_. 'And you, my
sinews, ... bear me stiffly up.' 55, 56.

Since writing as above, a friend informs me that _arture_ is the exact
equivalent of the [Greek: haphae] of Colossians ii. 19, as interpreted
by Bishop Lightfoot--'the relation between contiguous limbs, not the
parts of the limbs themselves in the neighbourhood of contact,'--for
which relation 'there is no word in our language in common use.']

[Footnote 5: 'with the things he imagines.']

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_Gho._ My hower is almost come,[1]
When I to sulphurous and tormenting Flames
Must render vp my selfe.

_Ham._ Alas poore Ghost.

_Gho._ Pitty me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall vnfold.

_Ham._ Speake, I am bound to heare.

_Gho._ So art thou to reuenge, when thou shalt heare.

_Ham._ What?

_Gho._ I am thy Fathers Spirit,
Doom'd for a certaine terme to walke the night;[2]
And for the day confin'd to fast in Fiers,[3]
Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature
Are burnt and purg'd away? But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my Prison-House;
I could a Tale vnfold, whose lightest word[4]
Would harrow vp thy soule, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like Starres, start from their Spheres,
Thy knotty and combined locks to part, [Sidenote: knotted]
And each particular haire to stand an end,[5]
Like Quilles vpon the fretfull[6] Porpentine [Sidenote: fearefull[6]]
But this eternall blason[7] must not be
To eares of flesh and bloud; list _Hamlet_, oh list,
[Sidenote: blood, list, o list;]
If thou didst euer thy deare Father loue.

_Ham._ Oh Heauen![8] [Sidenote: God]

_Gho._ Reuenge his foule and most vnnaturall Murther.[9]

_Ham._ Murther?

_Ghost._ Murther most foule, as in the best it is;
But this most foule, strange, and vnnaturall.

_Ham._ Hast, hast me to know it, [Sidenote: Hast me to know't,]
That with wings as swift

[Footnote 1: The night is the Ghost's day.]

[Footnote 2: To walk the night, and see how things go, without being
able to put a finger to them, is part of his cleansing.]

[Footnote