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241) Commentary Note for line 583:
583 {Lends} <Giues> the tongue vowes, these blazes daughter

    ... or &#8216;Lends the tongue vows.&#8212;These blazes, daughter, mark you.' or D. Shakespeare never introduces a catalectic line without intending an equivalent i ...

    ... e with good effect. But I do not believe that in this or the foregoing speeches Shakespear meant to bring out the senility or weakness of Polonius's mind. In th ...

    ... &#8212;These blazes, Daughter&#8212;mark you&#8212;'</para> <para>&#x201C;N. B. Shakespear never introduces a catalectic line without intending an equivalent t ...

    ... ith good effect. But I do not believe, that in this or the foregoing Speeches, Shakespear meant to bring out the senility or weakness of Polonius's mind. In t ...

    ... ra>583<tab> </tab><b>daughter</b>] <sc>Dyce</sc> (ed. 1866): &#x201C;Walker (<i>Shakespeare's Versification</i>, &amp;c. p. 206) cites this line as containing a ...

    ... zes</b>] <sc>Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): "short-lived bursts of flame (as often in Shakespeare). Compare [<i>R2</i> 2.1.33-4 (674)], &#8216;His rash fierce blaze ...
242) Commentary Note for line 586:
586 You must not take for fire, {from} <For> this time <Daughter,>

    ... the initial &#8216;th' of &#8216;this,' a kind of absorption not infrequent in Shakespeare. The F. verse, moreover, seems better: You must | not take | &lt;/p. ...
243) Commentary Note for line 588:
588 Set your {intreatments} <entreatments> at a higher rate

    ... them</i>, so certainly, not those which <i>Hamlet</i> made to her. I suspect <i>Shakespear</i> wrote, &#8216;<i>Set your </i><sc>intraitments</sc> <i>at a highe ...

    ... ] <sc>Clark &amp; Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;<small>Not elsewhere found in Shakespeare. </small>Johnson interprets it as &#8216;company, conversation'; <sm ...

    ... besiegers was common in the Middle Ages and had become conventional long before Shakespeare's time. It survives in the phrase 'to lay siege to one's heart.' Cf. ...

    ... hat there are military overtones to <i>entreaments</i>, a rare word not used by Shakespeare elsewhere."</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1988<tab></tab><sc>bev2</sc> </ ...
244) Commentary Note for line 593:
593 Doe not belieue his vowes, for they are brokers

    ... ied</i> and <i>pious</i>? Surely, so absurd a Thought could scarse come from <i>Shakespeare</i>. The only tolerable Way of reconciling it to a Meaning without a ...

    ... ll> </para> <para><small>&#x201C;I made this Emendation when I publish'd my <sc>Shakespeare </sc><i>restor'd</i>. and Mr. <i>Pope</i> has thought fit to embrace ...

    ... ut two lines before, a word synonimous to <i>bauds</i>, and the very title that Shakespeare gives to Pandarus in his [<i>Tro.</i> 5.10.33 (3570)]; the words <i> ...

    ... , and thus a <i>bawd</i> or <i>pander</i>. This secondary sense is dominant in Shakespeare, and is the relevant one here. Compare [<i>Jn.</i> 2.1.582, &#8216; ...
245) Commentary Note for line 594:
594 Not of {that die} <the eye> which their inuestments showe

    ... nk, to the white vestments of a priest,<small> as in the only other place where Shakespeare uses it</small>&#8212;[<i>2H4, </i>4.1.45 (1913)], &#8216;<small>Who ...

    ... ed does not indicate their real nature. The only other instance of this word in Shakespeare (<i>2H4</i> 4.1.45) also refers to vestments of a colour which belie ...

    ... >Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): "clothes, vestments. On the only other occasion when Shakespeare employs this word, [<i>2H4</i> 4.1.45 (1913)], it appears in the cou ...

    ... nts concealing black intentions? <i>Investments</i> in this sense seems to be a Shakespearean coinage, first occurring in <i>2H4</i> 4.1.45 : 'Whose white inves ...
246) Commentary Note for line 595:
595 But meere {imploratotors} <implorators> of vnholy suites

    ... i>Implorator</i>, for which <i>OED</i> can cite no other example, seems to be a Shakespearian coinage."</para> <br/><hanging><sc>oxf4</sc></hanging><para>595<t ...

    ... loratotors', on the grounds that it is hard to be dogmatic in emending a unique Shakespearean coinage and that the resulting line forms an acceptable hexameter. ...
247) Commentary Note for line 596:
596 Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds

    ... ds. have &#8216;&#8212;<i>pious</i> bonds<i>,' &amp;c.&#8212;</i>Mr. Singer (<i>Shakespeare Vindicated</i>, &amp;c. p. 261) says that &#8216;Theobald's correcti ...

    ... has been suspected of error by several commentators; but see how it is used in Shakespeare in other passages we have here cited.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla ...

    ... , </i> as in <i>Tim.</i> 2.2.63 and elsewhere). 'Bonds of love' are common and Shakespearean (cf. <i>Son.</i> 142) and false vows could no doubt be said to sim ...

    ... ing of <i>bawds</i> as <i>bonds</i> can be accounted for on the assumption that Shakespeare wrote <i>bauds</i>, a spelling common enough at the time and found, ...
248) Commentary Note for line 599:
599 Haue you so slaunder any moment leasure {D1}

    ... 4, p. 209): &#x201C;It is absolutely necessary to print &#8216;moment's.' Would Shakespeare have employed such a ridiculous inversion, when &#8216;leisure momen ...

    ... uncalled for, and most assuredly erroneous:&#8212; [quotes]. It is doubtful if Shakespeare would have <i>squander </i>here, indeed it is rarely used at all by ...

    ... cases are numerous, and this in in effect a great cause of the difficulties in Shakespeare. Indeed, we think it might be almost laid down as a rule, that a pas ...

    ... 857): &#x201C;In my <i>Remarks</i> <i>on Mr. Collier's and Mr. Knight's eds/ of Shakespeare</i>, p. 209, I perhaps too hastily found fault with Mr. Collier for ...
249) Commentary Note for line 601:
601 Looke too't I charge you, come your wayes.

    ... d. 1985): "This is an adverbial form, 'on your way'. See Franz, <i>Die Sprache Shakespeare</i>, p. 219."</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1987<tab> </tab><sc>oxf4</sc></ ...
250) Commentary Note for line 604:
604 Ham. The ayre bites {shroudly, it is very colde.} <shrewdly: is it very cold?>

    ... e </hanging><para>604 ff<tab> </tab><tab> </tab><sc>Coleridge </sc>(Lectures on Shakespeare and Education, Lecture 3, rpt. in the<i> Bristol Gazette</i>, 11 Nov ...

    ... ge</sc>, 1987, 5.1:545):&#x201C;Mr. <sc>Coleridge </sc>instanced, as a proof of Shakespear's minute knowledge of human nature, the unimportant conversation whic ...

    ... a double purpose is here answered, which demonstrates the exquisite judgment of Shakespear. By thus entangling the attention of the audience in the nice distin ...

    ... suddenness of its visionary character. No modern writer would have dared, Like Shakespear, to have preceded this last visitation by two distinct appearances: o ...

    ... C;&#8216;The unimportant conversation with which this scene opens is a proof of Shakespeare's minute knowledge of nature. It is a well-established fact, that on ...

    ... onversation,' says Coleridge, &#8216;with which this scene opens, is a proof of Shakespeare's minute knowledge of human nature. It is a well-established fact, t ...

    ... in the nice distinctions and parenthetical sentences of this speech of Hamlet, Shakespeare takes them completely by surprise on the appearance of the Ghost, wh ...

    ... ess of its visionary character, Indeed, no modern writer would have dared, like Shakespeare, to have preceded this last visitation by two distinct appearances; ...

    ... i> very cold?' which reading is not entirely unworthy of consideration, because Shakespeare's purpose in these two speeches might well have been to suggest that ...

    ... ): &#x201C;The unimportant conversation with which this scene opens is proof of Shakespeare's minute knowledge of human nature. It is a well-established fact, t ...

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