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251) Commentary Note for line 610:
610 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walke {A florish of trumpets }

    ... ttention. Having aroused the interest of his audience in the Ghost once again, Shakespeare employs the most arresting means available in his theatre to direct ...
252) Commentary Note for line 611:
611 What does this meane my Lord? {and 2. peeces goes of.}

    ... /i><sc>Parrott &amp; Craig</sc>, ed. 1938): &lt;p. 32&gt; &#x201C;Lawrence (<i>Shakespeare's Workshop, </i>p. 115) calls attention to two prompter's directions ...
253) Commentary Note for line 613:
613 Keepes {wassell} <wassels> and the {swaggring} <swaggering> vp-spring reeles:

    ... >w&#230;s hael</i>, abundant illustrations will be found in the <i>Variorum </i>Shakespeare, and in Douce;&#x201D;</para><br/><hanging><sc>stau</sc> &#8776; Ste ...

    ... auf.' No epithet could therefore be more appropriate to this drunken dance than Shakespeare's &#8216;swaggering.' I need hardly add that &#8216;up-spring' is an ...

    ... > (ed. 1904): &#x201C; [. . . ] another touch of northern local colour, such as Shakespeare may have got from his friends among the English players in Germany [ ...

    ... bably the rare noun <i>upspring</i> indicates some kind of Teutonic dance which Shakespeare introduces as local colour.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1982 < ...

    ... 2, p. 133) Schmidt's assertion that the H&#252;pfauf was apocryphal. Presumably Shakespeare knew of the upspring as a feature of carousals and associated it wit ...
254) Commentary Note for line 614:
614 And as he draines his drafts of Rennish downe,

    ... ed. 1980): &#x201C;Rhineland wine (imported in large quantities into England in Shakespeare's time).&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1982 <tab></tab> <sc>ard2 ...
255) Commentary Note for line 615:
615 The kettle drumme, and trumpet, thus bray out

    ... e arma.</i> II &#248;&#180;. 387. [GREEK] <i>remugiit ver&#242; lata tellus.</i>Shakesp. in [<i>Jn.</i> 3.1.303. (1236)] <i>Braying trumpets</i>. In Hamlet [615 ...
256) Commentary Note for line 617:
617 Hora. Is it a custome?

    ... rt for which all Germanic nations were once famous, and the Danes especially in Shakespeare's day. Cf. Greene, <i> Mourning Garment</i> (ed. Grosart, IX, 136): ...

    ... 107): &#x201C;Custom is mentioned more times in <i>Hamlet</i> than in any other Shakespeare play, and given a full range of meanings, but specific customs are o ...

    ... e also 617 CN below. By making Claudius follow and Hamlet deplore this 'custom' Shakespeare uses his knowledge of Danish ways not merely for local colour but in ...

    ... t Horatio, a Dane (124+18, 3826), should not know of the custom. The play shows Shakespeare in two minds about him. In scene one Horatio seemed at home in Denma ...

    ... d see Dover Wilson, <sc>cam3,</sc> p. xlviii; G. F. Bradby, <i>Short Studies in Shakespeare, </i> pp. 145 ff. </para> <para><b>Ed. note:</b> Like so many others ...
257) Commentary Note for line 619:
619 {But} <And> to my minde, though I am natiue heere

    ... heavy-headed revel' [621+1] as a custom incident to the manor. In this passage Shakespeare probably uses the word manor in a double sense, as in [<i>LLL </i>1. ...
258) Commentary Note for line 620:
620 And to the manner borne, it is a custome

    ... . Lewkenor, in a passage (immediately preceding an account of Wittenberg) which Shakespeare may well have read, speaks of the drunkenness of the people of Leipz ...
259) Commentary Note for line 621+1:
621+1 {This heauy headed reueale east and west}

    ... ceiv'd into the Text, but plac'd (as suspected, and too bad to belong to <i><sc>Shakespeare</sc></i>;) at the Bottom of his Page. I must transcribe the whole Pa ...

    ... but since left out, perhaps as being thought too verbose,<small> but certainly Shakespear's</small>.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1733<tab> </tab><sc>theo1</ ...

    ... whole speech of <i>Hamlet</i>, to the entrance of the ghost, I set right in <sc>Shakespeare </sc><i>restor'd</i>, so shall not trouble the Readers again with a ...

    ... hority </i>of <i>Copies</i>. But is this any Objection against Conjecture in <i>Shakespeare</i>'s Case. where no Original Manuscript is subsisting, and the Prin ...

    ... t &#8216;the disquisition is too long and calm for the awful occasion, and that Shakespeare may have desired it to be left out by the performer on this account. ...

    ... er to qualify the harsh description of royal riot in lines [612-16]. A trait of Shakespeare's character may be herein indicated: he would not suppress the lines ...

    ... s whole &#8216;noble substance' to his undoing. Here we seem to be presented by Shakespeare himself with a formula for the tragic hero: Hamlet. with his excess ...

    ... ot' (Hunterian Club, p. 21). But though the matter itself was common knowledge, Shakespeare seems to have been particularly influenced here, as later in this sp ...
260) Commentary Note for line 621+3:
621+3 {They clip vs drunkards, and with Swinish phrase}

    ... Coin</i>; and likewise to <i>gripe</i> or <i>embrace</i>: in both senses <i><sc>Shakespeare</sc></i> has more than once used the Word. [examples] &lt;/p. 31&gt; ...

    ... The intemperance of the Danes was matter of special notoriety at the time when Shakespeare wrote; and marvellous anecdotes are extant of enormous measures drai ...

    ... ab><b>Swinish phrase</b>] <sc>Clark &amp; Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;Could Shakespeare have had in his mind any pun upon &#8216;Sweyn,' which was a common ...

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