pursuest this Act,
[Sidenote: howsomeuer thou pursues]
[Sidenote: 30,174] Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue
[Sidenote: 140] Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen,
And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,
To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;
The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,
And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire:
Adue, adue, _Hamlet_: remember me. _Exit_.
[Sidenote: Adiew, adiew, adiew, remember me.[8]]

_Ham._ Oh all you host of Heauen! Oh Earth: what els?
And shall I couple Hell?[9] Oh fie[10]: hold my heart;
[Sidenote: hold, hold my]
And you my sinnewes, grow not instant Old;

[Footnote 1: Ebony.]

[Footnote 2: _producing leprosy_--as described in result below.]

[Footnote 3: _1st Q_. 'posteth'.]

[Footnote 4: So also _1st Q_.]

[Footnote 5: This _barckt_--meaning _cased as a bark cases its tree_--is
used in _1st Q_. also: 'And all my smoothe body, barked, and tetterd
ouer.' The word is so used in Scotland still.]

[Footnote 6: _Husel (Anglo-Saxon)_ is _an offering, the sacrament.
Disappointed, not appointed_: Dr. Johnson. _Unaneled, unoiled, without
the extreme unction_.]

[Footnote 7: It is on public grounds, as a king and a Dane, rather than
as a husband and a murdered man, that he urges on his son the execution
of justice. Note the tenderness towards his wife that follows--more
marked, 174; here it is mingled with predominating regard to his son to
whose filial nature he dreads injury.]

[Footnote 8: _Q_. omits _Exit_.]

[Footnote 9: He must: his father is there!]

[Footnote 10: The interjection is addressed to _heart_ and _sinews_,
which forget their duty.]

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But beare me stiffely vp: Remember thee?[1] [Sidenote: swiftly vp]
I, thou poore Ghost, while memory holds a seate [Sidenote: whiles]
In this distracted Globe[2]: Remember thee?
Yea, from the Table of my Memory,[3]
Ile wipe away all triuiall fond Records,
All sawes[4] of Bookes, all formes, all presures past,
That youth and obseruation coppied there;
And thy Commandment all alone shall liue
Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine,
Vnmixt with baser matter; yes, yes, by Heauen:
[Sidenote: matter, yes by]
[Sidenote: 168] Oh most pernicious woman![5]
Oh Villaine, Villaine, smiling damned Villaine!
My Tables, my Ta