s
Then setled age, his sables, and his weedes[16]
Importing health[17] and grauenes;]

[Footnote 1: 'some trick played on me?' Compare _K. Lear_, act v. sc. 7:
'I am mightily abused.']

[Footnote 2: I incline to the _Q._ reading here: 'or is it some trick,
and no reality in it?']

[Footnote 3: --following the king's suggestion.]

[Footnote 4: _Point thus_: 'Tis _Hamlets_ Character. 'Naked'!--And, in a
Postscript here, he sayes 'alone'! Can &c.

'_Alone_'--to allay suspicion of his having brought assistance with
him.]

[Footnote 5: Fine flattery--preparing the way for the instigation he is
about to commence.]

[Footnote 6: _Point thus_: '--as how should it be so? how
otherwise?--will' &c. The king cannot tell what to think--either how it
can be, or how it might be otherwise--for here is Hamlet's own hand!]

[Footnote 7: provided.]

[Footnote 8: A hawk was said _to check_ when it forsook its proper game
for some other bird that crossed its flight. The blunder in the _Quarto_
is odd, plainly from manuscript copy, and is not likely to have been set
right by any but the author.]

[Footnote 9: 'shall not give the _practice'--artifice, cunning attempt,
chicane_, or _trick_--but a word not necessarily offensive--'the name it
deserves, but call it _accident_:' 221.]

[Footnote 10: 'Some' _not in Q.--Hence_ may be either _backwards_ or
_forwards_; now it is used only _forwards_.]

[Footnote 11: travels.]

[Footnote 12: 'all your excellencies together.']

[Footnote 13: seat, place, grade, position, merit.]

[Footnote 14: 'A very riband'--a mere trifling accomplishment: the _u_
of the text can but be a misprint for _n_.]

[Footnote 15: _youth_ obj., _livery_ nom. to _becomes_.]

[Footnote 16: 'than his furs and his robes become settled age.']

[Footnote 17: Warburton thinks the word ought to be _wealth_, but I
doubt it; _health_, in its sense of wholeness, general soundness, in
affairs as well as person, I should prefer.]

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And they ran[1] well on Horsebacke; but this Gallant
[Sidenote: they can well[1]]
Had witchcraft in't[2]; he grew into his Seat, [Sidenote: vnto his]
And to such wondrous doing brought his Horse,
As had he beene encorps't and demy-Natur'd
With the braue Beast,[3] so farre he past my thought,
[Sidenote: he topt me thought,[4]]
That I in forgery[5] of shapes and trickes,
Come short of what he