of its
insanity is deepened by its coming from him so freely. The common nature
disappointed rails at humanity; Hamlet, his earthly ideal destroyed,
would tear his individual human self to pieces.]

[Footnote 7: This we may suppose uttered with an expression as startling
to Ophelia as impenetrable.]

[Footnote 8: He is disgusted with himself, with his own nature and
consciousness--]

[Footnote 9: --and this reacts on his kind.]

[Footnote 10: 'all' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 11: Here, perhaps, he grows suspicious--asks himself why he is
allowed this prolonged _tete a tete_.]

[Footnote 12: I am willing to believe she thinks so.]

[Footnote 13: Whether he trusts Ophelia or not, he does not take her
statement for correct, and says this in the hope that Polonius is not
too far off to hear it. The speech is for him, not for Ophelia, and will
seem to her to come only from his madness.]

[Footnote 14: _Exit_.]

[Footnote 15: (_re-entering_)]

[Footnote 16: 'So many are bad, that your virtue will not be believed
in.']

[Footnote 17: 'Go' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 18: _Exit, and re-enter._]

[Footnote 19: _Cornuti._]

[Footnote 20: _Exit._]

[Footnote 21: 'O' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 22: (_re-entering_)]

[Footnote 23: I suspect _pratlings_ to be a corruption, not of the
printed _paintings_, but of some word substituted for it by the Poet,
perhaps _prancings_, and _pace_ to be correct.]

[Footnote 24: 'your' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 25: As the present type to him of womankind, he assails her
with such charges of lightness as are commonly brought against women. He
does not go farther: she is not his mother, and he hopes she is
innocent. But he cannot make her speak!]

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too, Ile no more on't, it hath made me mad. I say,
we will haue no more Marriages.[1] Those that are
[Sidenote: no mo marriage,]
married already,[2] all but one shall liue, the rest
shall keep as they are. To a Nunnery, go.

_Exit Hamlet_. [Sidenote: _Exit_]

[3]_Ophe._ O what a Noble minde is heere o're-throwne?
The Courtiers, Soldiers, Schollers: Eye, tongue, sword,
Th'expectansie and Rose[4] of the faire State,
[Sidenote: Th' expectation,]
The glasse of Fashion,[5] and the mould of Forme,[6]
Th'obseru'd of all Obseruers, quite, quite downe.
Haue I of Ladies most deiect and wretched, [Side