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 girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. OPH. I do not know, my lord, what I should 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. c POL. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do I. o. c. know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul * is between] Has passed, intercourse had. c 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; b 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) e I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, [Exeunt, SCENE IV. The Platform. Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS. HAM. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. scanter] More sparing. b entreatments] Opportunities of entreating or parley. Johnson derives it from entretien, Fr. 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. • 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. d at height] To the utmost, topping every thing. "For marks descried in man's nativity Rape of Lucrece. MALONE. ⚫ease. 4to. eale. 4to. of a doubt. 4to. As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, b Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; HOR. Enter Ghost. Look, my lord, it comes! HAM. Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, (81) hell, It chances that for some vicious mole of nature,— Or by some habit-that these men] To connect the sentence, we must before "that these men" supply "it happens," or something to that effect. The sense of the latter part of the speech is, A little vice will often obliterate all a man's good qualities; and the effect is, that the vice becomes scandalous, i. e. offensive; being taken for his predominating character. In All's Well, &c. plausive has been twice used for admirable. I.2. King. III. 1. Parolles. b nature's livery, or fortune's star] The vesture or garb in which nature clothes us; the humour innate or complexion born with us: or some casualty or fatality, the influence of the star of fortune or chance. e undergo] Support, possess. d "To undergo such ample grace and honour." censure take corruption] Estimate become tainted. Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, (89) • Revisitst. Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, (86) 1632. With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? As if it some impartment did desire HAM. It will not speak; then I will follow it. HAM. Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; (87) And, for my soul, what can it do to that, It waves me forth again;-I'll follow it. HOR. What, if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, *hearsed in death] Deposited with the accustomed funeral rites: conveyed in the vehicle appropriated to this ceremonial. b cerements] Waxen envelope. C disposition] Frame of mind; or affection of body and mind. • Somnet, 4tos. Sonnet. 1623, 32. |