raue,
[Sidenote: 84] Who was in life, a foolish prating Knaue.
[Sidenote: a most foolish]
Come sir, to draw toward an end with you.[5]
Good night Mother.

_Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius._[6] [Sidenote: _Exit._]

[7]

_Enter King._ [Sidenote: Enter King, and Queene, with
Rosencraus and Guyldensterne.]

_King._ There's matters in these sighes.
These profound heaues
You must translate; Tis fit we vnderstand them.
Where is your Sonne?[8]

_Qu._ [B] Ah my good Lord, what haue I seene to night?
[Sidenote: _Ger._ | Ah mine owne Lord,]

_King._ What _Gertrude_? How do's _Hamlet_?

_Qu._ Mad as the Seas, and winde, when both contend
[Sidenote: _Ger._ | sea and]
Which is the Mightier, in his lawlesse fit[9]

[Footnote A: _Here in the Quarto_:--

[10]Ther's letters seald, and my two Schoolefellowes,
Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang'd,
They beare the mandat, they must sweep my way
And marshall me to knauery[11]: let it worke,
For tis the sport to haue the enginer
Hoist[12] with his owne petar,[13] an't shall goe hard
But I will delue one yard belowe their mines,
And blowe them at the Moone: o tis most sweete
When in one line two crafts directly meete,]

[Footnote B: _Here in the Quarto_:--

Bestow this place on vs a little while.[14]]

[Footnote 1: _1st Q._

O mother, if euer you did my deare father loue,
Forbeare the adulterous bed to night,
And win your selfe by little as you may,
In time it may be you wil lothe him quite:
And mother, but assist mee in reuenge,
And in his death your infamy shall die.

_Queene. Hamlet_, I vow by that maiesty,
That knowes our thoughts, and lookes into our hearts,
I will conceale, consent, and doe my best,
What stratagem soe're thou shalt deuise.]

[Footnote 2: The king had spoken of it both before and after the play:
Horatio might have heard of it and told Hamlet.]

[Footnote 3: 'My banishment will be laid to this deed of mine.']

[Footnote 4: --to rid his mother of it.]

[Footnote 5: It may cross him, as he says this, dragging the body out by
one end of it, and toward the end of its history, that he is himself
drawing toward an end along with Polonius.]

[Footnote 6: --_and weeping_. 182. See _note_ 5, 183.]

[Footnote 7: