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271) Commentary Note for line 2344:
2344 O limed soule, that struggling to be free,

 ... soule, that struggling to be free,</para> </ehline> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2344<tab> </tab> ...

 ... free,</para> </ehline> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2344<tab> </tab> lime ] <sc>Johnson</sc> ( ...

 ... igla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2344<tab> </tab> lime ] <sc>Johnson</sc> (1755): To lime- 1. “To entangle; to ensnare.&#x201D ...

272) Commentary Note for line 2345:
2345 Art more ingaged; helpe Angels make assay, 2345

 ... Angels make assay,<tab> </tab>2345</para> </ehline> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2345<tab> </tab> ...

 ... >2345</para> </ehline> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2345<tab> </tab> assay ] <sc>Johnson</sc> ...

 ... gla><hanging>Johnson Dict. </hanging> <para>2345<tab> </tab> assay ] <sc>Johnson</sc> (1755): 1. “To make trial of; to make experiment of.” ...

273) Commentary Note for line 2350:
2350 Ham. Now might I doe it {, but} <pat,> now {a} <he> is {a} praying,

 ... ibutiion </hanging><para>2350-70<tab> </tab>Now . . . . goes] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “This speech, in which Hamlet, represente ...

 ... goes] <sc>Ritson</sc> (1783, p. 205): “‘This speech,' says Dr. Johnson, ‘in which Hamlet, represented as a virtuous character, is not con ...

 ... er such aggravated circumstances, for Hamlet to be content with having what dr. Johnson calls blood for blood, would have been taking an inadequate and imperfec ...

 ... goes] <sc>Mason</sc> (1785, p. 390): “This speech of Hamlet's, as Johnson observes, is horrible indeed, yet some moral may be extracted from it, a ...

 ... be read or uttered.) This note always seemed to me rather scrupulous than wise, Johnson may be thus far right that a man who is in the Christian spirit of lovin ...

 ... 1987, 5.1: 389): “Another objection has been taken by Dr. Johnson, and has been treated by him very severely.n I refer to the scene in the ...

 ... s no relish of salvation in't.' This determination sentiment Dr. Johnson has pronounced to be so atrocious & horrible as to be unfit to be pu ...

 ... for the man that he would punish, is too horrible to be read or to be uttered.' Johnson Works VIII. 990.” </note></para> <para><fnc> Transcribed b ...

 ... . <sc>Coleridge, </sc>1998, 12.4:855): <p. 855>“Dr. Johnson's mistaking of the marks of reluctance & procrastination for impetuo ...

 ... range to say, this scene is regarded as a proof of his irresolution; and though Johnson accused him of being influenced by motives inhuman and fiendish, it is n ...

 ... unworthy of a hero, that I wish our poet had omitted it. <sc>Coleridge</sc>: Dr Johnson's mistaking of the marks of reluctance and procrastination for impetuous ...

 ... act, as such a time, has proved a stumbling block to the critics. The great Dr. Johnson regards it as ‘an atrocious and horrible sentiment on the part of ...

 ... h, if he meant what he said, would certainly be as horrible and infernal as Dr. Johnson and others have called it. The under circumstances that might destroy hi ...

 ... 2006<tab></tab><sc>ard3q2</sc></sigla> <hanging><sc>ard3q2</sc>: Oth //; Johnson, Caldecott, Garrick</hanging> <para>2350-70<tab> </tab>Now. . . goes] <s ...

274) Commentary Note for line 2354:
2354 I his {sole} <foule> sonne, doe this same villaine send

 ... sc>contra <sc>warb </sc></hanging><para>2354<tab> </tab>sole] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “The folio gives a reading apparently corrupted ...

 ... l. i, Various Readings, p. 26) also conjectures ‘fool.' <sc>Johnson</sc>: ‘I his only son, who am bound to punish his murderer. ...

275) Commentary Note for line 2358:
2358 And how his audit stands who knowes saue heauen,

 ... ab>And. . . reuendged] <sc>[Davies]</sc> (ms. notes in <sc>Johnson</sc>, ed. 1765, opp 8:236): “Hamlet forgets the interview with ye ...

 ... le thinking might have produced something more artful. </para> <para>“Dr Johnson very justly observes that it is too horrible to be read & to be utte ...

276) Commentary Note for line 2363:
2363 Vp sword, and knowe thou a more horrid hent,

 ... f; also, to hem in, to surround.”</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. ≈ <sc> han </sc> </hanging> </cn> <cn><sigla>1755<tab> </tab>Johnson Dict.</sigla><hanging>Johnson Dict. ≈ <sc> han </sc> </hanging> <para>2363<tab> </tab> hent</ ...

 ... Dict. ≈ <sc> han </sc> </hanging> <para>2363<tab> </tab> hent] <sc>Johnson</sc> (1755) to hend] : 1. “To seize; to lay hold on.”</par ...

 ... o <sc>han</sc>. <sc>warb</sc>)</hanging> <para>2363<tab> </tab>hent] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “This reading is followed by Sir T. Hanmer ≈ <sc>john</sc></hanging> <para>2363<tab> </tab>hent] <sc>Johnson</sc> (apud ed. 1790): “To hent is used by Shakespeare</ ...

 ... or seizure. Lay hold on him, sword, at a more horrid time. <sc>Johnson.”</sc> </para> <para><fnc> This note abbreviates <sc>john1</sc> a ...

 ... s a verb in the same sense. See WT [4.3.124 (1792)], note 19.—Dr. Johnson and others have exclaimed against what Hamlet here says, as showing a th ...

 ... cannot be accused of plagiarism for having adopted hint in his text. <sc>Johnson</sc>: To ‘hent' is used by Sh. for to seize, to catch</i ...

 ... e will be ineffectual. Hence we have the diabolical outburst which prompted Dr. Johnson's famous comment: ‘This speech, in which Hamlet is not content wit ...

277) Commentary Note for line 2364:
2364 When he is {drunke, a sleepe,} <drunke asleepe:> or in his rage,

 ... al may be quoted [quotes Q2, F1, <sc>john</sc> versions of 2364] where, whether Johnson's hyphen [drunk-asleep] be correct or not, the words ‘drunk asleep ...

 ... asleep,]“(f1) Q2 ‘drunke, a sleepe,' MSH. p. 206. i.e. dead drunk. Johnson read ‘drunk-asleep.'”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1980<tab> </t ...

 ... c>. Hamlet's desire to effect the King's damnation was immensely shocking to Dr Johnson, who was not alone in the 18th century in thinking it ‘too horribl ...

278) Commentary Note for line 2368:
2368 Then trip him that his heels may kick at heauen, {I2}

 ... al damnation. The following passage has evidently been misunderstood as well by Johnson as by the Coleridges and Lambs [passage cited] ‘hell' here does no ...

 ... ce of eternal punishment; but purgatory, or the place of departed spirits; vide Johnson:—'the place of separate souls whether good or bad.' and in Tamburl ...

 ... man that he would punish, is too horrible to be read or to be uttered'—Johnson.”</para> <para>“Hamlet's answer to this has bee ...

279) Commentary Note for line 2369:
2369 And that his soule may be as damnd and black

 ... 1</sc></hanging><para>2369-70<tab> </tab>his soule . . .goes] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “This speech, in which Hamlet, represented as a ...

 ... ] M. <sc>Mason</sc> (apud ed. 1793): “This speech of Hamlet's, as Johnson observes, is horrible indeed; yet some moral may be extracted from it, a ...

 ... nd yet . . . .” </para> <para><fnc> This interplation is located between JOHNSON gloss and STEEVENS parallels from v1778. Mason comment from1785, p. 390. ...

 ... es] B<sc>ecket </sc>(1815, 1:58-9): <p.58> “This outcry of Dr. Johnson and his followers in regard to the damnatory (condemnatory) speec ...

 ... ibuted to Reed, though v1813 attributes it to MALONE), and MASON's seconding of JOHNSON's observation (though this last had appeared prior to the parallels in v ...

 ... . . . goes] <sc>Fiebig</sc> (ed. 1857): “This speech, says Johnson, in which Hamlet, represented as a virtuous character, is not conten ...

 ... 0<tab> </tab>And...goes] <sc>Furness (</sc>ed. 1877): “<sc>Johnson</sc>: This speech, in which Ham., represented as a virtuous character, i ...

280) Commentary Note for line 2379:
2379 Much heate and him, Ile silence me {euen} <e'ene> heere,

 ... >contra<sc> warb</sc></hanging><para>2379<tab> </tab>silence] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): “Sir T. Hanmer, who is followed by Dr. </hanging><para>2379<tab> </tab>Ile silence . . . heere] <sc>Johnson</sc> (apud <sc>Malone</sc>, ed. 1790): “I'll silence me ...

 ... x201C;I'll silence me ev'n here, is, I'll use no more words. <sc>Johnson.</sc>”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1791-<tab> </tab><sc>rann</sc></si ...

 ... e me e'en here] This is the reading of all the old copies except the first. Dr. Johnson explains it, ‘I'll use no more words.' In the first printed copy w ...

 ... 632, which thus gives the words—‘I'll 'sconce me even here.' Johnson felt obliged to explain that ‘I'll silence me e'en </p.426>& ...

 ... lius</sc> (ed. 1872): “Ich will mir hier ein Stillschweigen auferlegen. Johnson erklärt: I'll use no more words. Wie schon früher, gl ...

 ... behind the arras.” [I will lay a mandate of silence on myself here. Johnson says: use no more words. As already earlier, Polonius believes h ...

 ... The same word is used upon a like occasion in Wiv., [3.3.90 (1430)]. <sc>Johnson</sc>: The advocates of ‘sconce forget that the contrivance ...

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