;--_the
object of universal imitation_.]

[Footnote 7: I do not know whether this means--the peal rung without
regard to tune or time--or--the single bell so handled that the tongue
checks and jars the vibration. In some country places, I understand,
they go about ringing a set of hand-bells.]

[Footnote 8: youth in full blossom.]

[Footnote 9: madness 177.]

[Footnote 10: 'to see now such a change from what I saw then.']

[Footnote 11: The king's conscience makes him keen. He is, all through,
doubtful of the madness.]

[Footnote 12: --of the fact- or fancy-egg on which his melancholy sits
brooding]

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With variable Obiects, shall expell
This something setled matter[1] in his heart
Whereon his Braines still beating, puts him thus
From[2] fashion of himselfe. What thinke you on't?

_Pol_. It shall do well. But yet do I beleeue
The Origin and Commencement of this greefe [Sidenote: his greefe,]
Sprung from neglected loue.[3] How now _Ophelia_?
You neede not tell vs, what Lord _Hamlet_ saide,
We heard it all.[4] My Lord, do as you please,
But if you hold it fit after the Play,
Let his Queene Mother all alone intreat him
To shew his Greefes: let her be round with him, [Sidenote: griefe,]
And Ile be plac'd so, please you in the eare
Of all their Conference. If she finde him not,[5]
To England send him: Or confine him where
Your wisedome best shall thinke.

_King_. It shall be so:
Madnesse in great Ones, must not vnwatch'd go.[6]
[Sidenote: unmatched]
_Exeunt_.

_Enter Hamlet, and two or three of the Players_.
[Sidenote: _and three_]

_Ham_.[7] Speake the Speech I pray you, as I
pronounc'd it to you trippingly[8] on the Tongue:
But if you mouth it, as many of your Players do,
[Sidenote: of our Players]
I had as liue[9] the Town-Cryer had spoke my [Sidenote: cryer spoke]
Lines:[10] Nor do not saw the Ayre too much your [Sidenote: much with]
hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie
Torrent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirlewinde
[Sidenote: say, whirlwind]
of Passion, you must acquire and beget a [Sidenote: of your]
Temperance that may giue it Smoothnesse.[11] O it
offends mee to the Soule, to see a robustious Perywig-pated