, means _I have mistaken_; 'purposes
mistooke'--_purposes in themselves mistaken_:--that of Laertes, which
came back on himself; and that of the king in the matter of the poison,
which, by falling on the queen, also came back on the inventor.]

[Footnote 19: The _Quarto_ is correct here, I think: '_rights of the
past_'--'claims of descent.' Or 'rights of memory' might mean--'_rights
yet remembered_.'

Fortinbras is not one to miss a chance: even in this shadowy 'person,'
character is recognizably maintained.]

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Which are to claime,[1] my vantage doth [Sidenote: Which now to clame]
Inuite me,

_Hor_. Of that I shall haue alwayes[2] cause to speake,
[Sidenote: haue also cause[3]]
And from his mouth
[Sidenote: 272] Whose voyce will draw on more:[3]
[Sidenote: drawe no more,]
But let this same be presently perform'd,
Euen whiles mens mindes are wilde, [Sidenote: while]
Lest more mischance
On plots, and errors happen.[4]

_For_. Let foure Captaines
Beare _Hamlet_ like a Soldier to the Stage,
For he was likely, had he beene put on[5]
To haue prou'd most royally:[6] [Sidenote: royall;]
And for his passage,[7]
The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre[8] [Sidenote: right of]
Speake[9] lowdly for him.
Take vp the body; Such a sight as this [Sidenote: bodies,]
Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.
Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.[10]

_Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale_ [Sidenote: _Exeunt._]
_of Ordenance are shot off._

FINIS.

[Footnote 1: 'which must now be claimed'--except the _Quarto_ be right
here also.]

[Footnote 2: The _Quarto_ surely is right here.]

[Footnote 3: --Hamlet's mouth. The message he entrusted to Horatio for
Fortinbras, giving his voice, or vote, for him, was sure to 'draw on
more' voices.]

[Footnote 4: 'lest more mischance happen in like manner, through plots
and mistakes.']

[Footnote 5: 'had he been put forward'--_had occasion sent him out_.]

[Footnote 6: 'to have proved a most royal soldier:'--A soldier gives
here his testimony to Hamlet's likelihood in the soldier's calling. Note
the kind of regard in which the Poet would show him held.]

[Footnote 7: --the passage of his spirit to its place.]

[Footnote 8: --military mourning or funeral rites.]

[Footnote 9: _imperative mood_: 'let the sold