1 But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: And they in France, of the best rank and station, For loan oft loses both itself and friend; tend. LAER. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well What I have said to you. OPH. 'Tis in my memory lock'd, And 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 teous: C If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, 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 tenders Of his affection to me. POL. Affection? puh! you speak like a green Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. OPH. I do not know, my lord, what I should 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, * * 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 I. O. C. know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul C 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. a Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate, Than a command to parley. For lord Hamlet, Believe so much in him, That he is young; Teder. 4to. And with a larger * tether may he walk, Than may be given you: In few, Ophelia, 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, 1,623, 32. Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, (76) 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 HOR. It is a nipping and an eager air.(7) cold. HAM. What hour now? ⚫scanter] More sparing. bentreatments] Opportunities of entreating or parley. Johnson derives it from entretien, Fr. с e larger tether] Rope or license. a 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, b More honour'd in the breach, than the observance. From our achievements, though perform'd at height", 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. at height] To the utmost, topping every thing. - mole of nature] Natural blemish. "For marks descried in man's nativity Rape of Lucrece. MALONE. As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; b Shall in the general censure take corruption ease. 4to. From that particular fault: The dram of ill Doth all the noble substance often dout, * To his own scandal. (80) eale. 4to. * of a doubt. 4to. 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, a 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. bnature'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. • undergo] Support, possess. d "To undergo such ample grace and honour." censure take corruption] Estimate become tainted. |