Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, LAER. O fear me not. I stay too long;-But here my father comes. Enter POLONIUS. A double blessing is a double grace; b POL. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard,* for a bord, a shame; The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, bord. 4to. aboord, aboord. And you are staid for: There, my blessing with 1623, 32. you; [Laying his Hand on LAERTES' Head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. (66) Give thy thoughts no Nor any unproportion'd thought his act." ment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, reade] Counsel. The old proverb in the Two angry Women of Abington, 1599, is, " Take heed, is a good reed." d e opposed] One of the quartos gives opposer. • each man's censure] Sentiment, opinion. STEEVENS. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: And they in France, of the best rank and station, LAER. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. POL, The time invites you(72), go, your servants tend. LAER. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. ОРН. And 'Tis in my memory lock'd, you yourself shall keep the key of it." LAER. Farewell. [Exit LAERTES. POL. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? OPH. So please you, something touching the lord Hamlet. POL. Marry, well bethought: 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late Given private time to you:" and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and boun teous: If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, с And that in way of caution,) I must tell you, yourself shall keep the key of it] Thence it shall not be dismissed, till you think it needless to retain it. b Given private time to you] Spent his time in private visits to you. as so 'tis put on me] Suggested to, impressed on. As it behoves my daughter, and your honour: OPH. He hath, my lord, of late, made many Of his affection to me. POL. Affection? puh! you speak like a green Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. think. POL. Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, OPH. My lord, he hath impórtun'd me with love, In honourable fashion. POL. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. I. O. C. OPH. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven. с POL. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do L. o. C. know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul с is between] Has passed, intercourse had. green girl, Unsifted] Raw, unwinnowed or exercised. IV. 5. King. woodcocks] Witless things. See M. ado, &c. V. 1. Claud. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Than a command to parley. For lord Hamlet, * Do not believe his vows: for they are brokers (75) the eye. Not of that die* which their investments" show, But mere implorators of unholy suits, 1623, 32. Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, (76) [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Platform. Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS. HAM. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. scanter] More sparing. bentreatments] Opportunities of entreating or parley. Johnson derives it from entretien, Fr. с larger tether] Rope or license. d that die, which their investments show] Investments are covering or exterior. That die, instead of the eye, is the reading of the quartos. slander any moment's leisure] Let in reproach upon. HOR. I think, it lacks of twelve. MAR. No, it is struck." HOR. Indeed? I heard it not; it then draws near the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. (78) [A Flourish of Trumpets, and Ordnance shot What does this mean, my lord? HAM. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, (79) 4to. Keeps wassels and the swaggering up-spring reels; Wassel. HOR. HAM. Ay, marry, is't: Is it a custom ? But to my mind,-though I am native here, More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. Makes us traduc'd, and tax'd of other nations; C From our achievements, though perform'd at height, So, oft it chances in particular men, e That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, it is struck] See I. 1. Barn. beast and west] Every where: from the rising to the setting sun. с • Clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition] Disparage us by using as characteristic of us, terms that imply or impute swinish properties, that fix a swinish" addition" or title to our names. Clepe, clypian. Sax. to call. at height] To the utmost, topping every thing. mole of nature] Natural blemish. "For marks descried in man's nativity "Are nature's fault, not their own infamy." Rape of Lucrece, MALONE. |