14] would dosie[15]
th'arithmaticke of memory, and yet but yaw[16] neither in respect of
his quick saile, but in the veritie of extolment, I take him to be a
soule of great article,[17] & his infusion[18] of such dearth[19] and
rarenesse, as to make true dixion of him, his semblable is his
mirrour,[20] & who els would trace him, his vmbrage, nothing more.[21]

_Cour_. Your Lordship speakes most infallibly of him.[22]

_Ham_. The concernancy[23] sir, why doe we wrap the gentleman in our
more rawer breath?[24]

_Cour_. Sir.[25]

_Hora_. Ist not possible to vnderstand in another tongue,[26] you will
too't sir really.[27]

_Ham_. What imports the nomination of this gentleman.

_Cour_. Of _Laertes_.[28]

_Hora_. His purse is empty already, all's golden words are spent.

_Ham_. Of him sir.[29]

_Cour_. I know you are not ignorant.[30]

_Ham_. I would you did sir, yet in faith if you did, it would not
much approoue me,[31] well sir.

_Cour_.]

[Footnote B: _Here in the Quarto_:--

_Ham_. I dare not confesse that, least I should compare with him in
excellence, but to know a man wel, were to knowe himselfe.[32]

_Cour_. I meane sir for this weapon, but in the imputation laide on
him,[33] by them in his meed, hee's vnfellowed.[34]]

[Footnote 1: 'in good faith, it is not for manners, but for my comfort I
take it off.' Perhaps the hat was intended only to be carried, and would
not really go on his head.]

[Footnote 2: The _Quarto_ has not 'at his weapon,' which is inserted to
take the place of the passage omitted, and connect the edges of the
gap.]

[Footnote 3: So far from having envied Laertes' reputation for fencing,
as the king asserts, Hamlet seems not even to have known which was
Laertes' weapon.]

[Footnote 4: laid down--staked.]

[Footnote 5: This and the following passages seem omitted for
curtailment, and perhaps in part because they were less amusing when the
fashion of euphuism had passed. The good of holding up the mirror to
folly was gone when it was no more the 'form and pressure' of 'the very
age and body of the time.']

[Footnote 6: of great variety of excellence.]

[Footnote 7: gentle manners.]

[Footnote 8: fine presence.]

[Footnote 9: Is this a stupid attempt at wit on the part of Osricke--'to
praise him as if you wanted to sell him'--stupid because it acknowledges
exaggeration?]

[Footnote 10: 'the chart or book of reference.' 234.]

[Footnote 11: I think _part_ here should