[Sidenote: he dooes indeede]

[Sidenote: 118] _Pol_. At such a time Ile loose my Daughter to him,
Be you and I behinde an Arras then,
Marke the encounter: If he loue her not,
And be not from his reason falne thereon;
Let me be no Assistant for a State,
And keepe a Farme and Carters. [Sidenote: But keepe]

_King_. We will try it.

_Enter Hamlet reading on a Booke._[2]

_Qu_. But looke where sadly the poore wretch
Comes reading.[3]

_Pol_. Away I do beseech you, both away,
He boord[4] him presently. _Exit King & Queen_[5]
Oh giue me leaue.[6] How does my good Lord _Hamlet_?

_Ham_. Well, God-a-mercy.

_Pol_. Do you know me, my Lord?

[Sidenote: 180] _Ham_. Excellent, excellent well: y'are a
Fish-monger.[7] [Sidenote: Excellent well, you are]

_Pol_. Not I my Lord.

_Ham_. Then I would you were so honest a man.

_Pol_. Honest, my Lord?

_Ham_. I sir, to be honest as this world goes, is
to bee one man pick'd out of two thousand.
[Sidenote: tenne thousand[8]]

_Pol_. That's very true, my Lord.

_Ham_.[9] For if the Sun breed Magots in a dead
dogge, being a good kissing Carrion--[10] [Sidenote: carrion. Have]
Haue you a daughter?[11]

_Pol_. I haue my Lord.

[Footnote 1: _1st Q_.

The Princes walke is here in the galery,
There let _Ofelia_, walke vntill hee comes:
Your selfe and I will stand close in the study,]

[Footnote 2: _Not in Quarto_.]

[Footnote 3: _1st Q_.--

_King_. See where hee comes poring vppon a booke.]

[Footnote 4: The same as accost, both meaning originally _go to the side
of_.]

[Footnote 5: _A line back in the Quarto_.]

[Footnote 6: 'Please you to go away.' 89, 203. Here should come the
preceding stage-direction.]

[Footnote 7: Now first the Play shows us Hamlet in his affected madness.
He has a great dislike to the selfish, time-serving courtier, who, like
his mother, has forsaken the memory of his father--and a great distrust
of him as well. The two men are moral antipodes. Each is given to
moralizing--but compare their reflections: those of Polonius reveal a
lover of himself, those of Hamlet a lover of his kind; Polonius is
interested in success; Hamlet in humanity.]

[Footnote 8: So also in _1st Q_.]

[Footnote 9: --reading, or pretending to read, the words from the book
he carries.]

[Footnote 10: When the passion for emendation takes p