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

    ... indeed, very fine; and not very obvious to cursory observation. The beauties of Shakespeare, like the genuine beauty of every kind, are often veiled; they are n ...

    ... ohn1</sc></hanging> <para><sc>2350-71<tab> </tab>Coleridge </sc>(<i>Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton</i>, Lecture 12, 1812 rept. in John Payne Collier longhan ...

    ... development of the character, and which the improvement in stage business since Shakespeare's time renders superfluous, perhaps; and these may be omitted, thoug ...

    ... ord,/So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.&#x201D; &#8216; Wordsworth (<i>Shakespeare's Knowledge of the Bible</i>) excuses Hamlet in much the same way. ...

    ... , p. 65) &lt;p.65&gt; &#x201C;Whoever has seen a manuscript play of the time of Shakespeare intended for the use of a theatre, with its alterations, erasures, i ...

    ... g is this, &#8216;And now I'll do it: and (= <i>but</i>) so he goes to heaven!' Shakespeare uses this meaning of &#8216;and.' It flashes into Hamlet's mind, and ...

    ... not killing the king when he is praying have been held to be an excuse. But if Shakespeare had anticipated the criticism, he could not have guarded against it ...

    ... estroy his soul at the same time, has not only been adopted by more than one of Shakespeare's dramatic contemporaries, but is said to have been really uttered a ...

    ... rcumstances of country, age, form of government, and social condition, in which Shakespeare has laid the scene of the play, a judicial act required of him by th ...

    ... is not garbled or incomplete . . . . It bears every mark of being exactly what Shakespeare wished it to be: it is eminently finished and entire.&#x201D; He con ...

    ... 8212;'Now might I do it pat, now he is praying,' which proves beyond cavil that Shakespeare wrote &#8216;pat' not &#8216;but.' Yet the Q2 reading strongly sugge ...

    ... til the end of the third scene of the third act&#8212;or, in other words, until Shakespeare's play is more than half finished. It is the moment when Hamlet find ...

    ... eech (73, 74, 80) and that '<i>a</i> (assumed to relate to the dialect roots of Shakespeare, who is one of the latest citations for its usage <i>OED</i>) is 'hi ...

    ... ns regarding the equivocations and dissimulations present in public speech. Yet Shakespeare manifests the limitations of Hamlet's faith in the relationship betw ...
672) Commentary Note for line 2351:
2351 And now Ile doo't, and so {a} <he> goes to heauen,

    ... lly professes was quite general enough among semi-barbarous Christians, even in Shakespeare's own time, to justify its employment, as a motive, in Hamlet's case ...

    ... ed. 1987): &#x201C;very conveniently. The word seems to have been associated in Shakespeare's mind with the perfectly timed stage entrance. See <i>MND</i> [3.1. ...
673) Commentary Note for line 2353:
2353 A villaine kills my father, and for that,

    ... heaven by the aid of my hand</small>)'&#8212;John Lord Chedworth's <i>Notes on Shakespeare's Plays</i>, p. 354.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1891<tab> </tab ...
674) Commentary Note for line 2355:
2355 To heauen. 2355
2355 {Why,} <Oh> this is {base and silly} <hyre and Sallery>, not reuendge,

    ... 82): &#x201C;The sentiment expressed in these lines does by no means belong to Shakespeare exclusively, but is to be found in other Elizabethan dramatists as ...

    ... nly one thing can, I think, be said with for certainty: &#8216;Sallery' must be Shakespeare's word. Its graphical similarity with the Q2 &#8216;silly' lends it ...

    ... ost certainly a makeshift by Scribe P for something he could not read, and what Shakespeare actually wrote must be similar in form to &#8216;base.' The guess I ...

    ... &#x201C;the rest of the line is silent, as Hamlet remembers the Ghost's words. Shakespeare's silences are often most effective.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla ...

    ... see Jenkins); Parrott-Craig defend Q2, pointing out that the F reading would be Shakespeare's only use of 'salary'; Mack and Boynton retain..&#x201D;</para> <br ...

    ... and weakspirited. <i>Base</i> frequently means 'inferior' or 'illegitimate' in Shakespeare (see especially Edmund's complaint, 'Why bastard? Wherefore base?', ...
675) Commentary Note for line 2358:
2358 And how his audit stands who knowes saue heauen,

    ... </sc> (ed. 1747): &#x201C;From these lines, and some others, it appears that <i>Shakespear</i> had drawn the first sketch of this play without his Ghost; and, w ...

    ... d examined at a certain date by an &#x201C;auditor&#x201D;; used by others than Shakespeare of the rendering of accounts to God at death.&#x201D;</para></cn> <c ...

    ... r</sc> (ed. 2006): &#x201C;Warburton conjectured on the basis of this line that Shakespeare's 'first sketch' of the play did not contain the Ghost, who 'had tol ...
676) Commentary Note for line 2359:
2359 But in our circumstance and course of thought,

    ... er,' <i>i.e</i>. the cause of your distemper. Circumstance is used, as often in Shakespeare, for details.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1891<tab> </tab><sc>dt ...

    ... opinions. I think that <i>circumstance</i> (one of the most difficult words in Shakespeare) has much the same idea as in [3.1.1 (1648)]; implying that our thou ...

    ... ense of circuitous or circling discourse. The construction here is the familiar Shakespearean use of two nouns for an adjective and a noun, i.e. &#8216;circumst ...
677) Commentary Note for line 2361:
2361 To take him in the purging of his soule,

    ... ns regarding the equivocations and dissimulations present in public speech. Yet Shakespeare manifests the limitations of Hamlet's faith in the relationship betw ...
678) Commentary Note for line 2363:
2363 Vp sword, and knowe thou a more horrid hent,

    ... ation, Purpose</i>, &amp;c. I have prov'd his frequent Use of this Word, in my SHAKESPEARE <i>restor'd</i>; so shall spare the Trouble of making the Quotations ...

    ... rburton</i>; but <i>Hent</i> is probably the right word. To hent is used by <i>Shakespeare</i> for to <i>seize</i>, to <i>catch</i>, to <i>lay hold on</i>. <i> ...

    ... ent</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (<i>apud</i> ed. 1790): &#x201C;To hent is used by <i>Shakespeare</i> for to <i>seize</i>, to <i>catch</i>, to <i>lay hold on</i>. <i ...

    ... rcumstances of country, age, form of government, and social condition, in which Shakespeare has laid the scene of the play, a judicial act required of him by th ...

    ... b></sc><b>hent</b>] <sc>Fieb</sc> (ed. 1857): &#x201C;To <i>hend </i>is used by Shakespeare for, to <i>seize</i>, to <i>catch</i>, to lay hold on. <i>Hent</i> i ...

    ... he <i>hente</i>.' Lydgate has henter, a holder, a seizer, a grappler. But when Shakespeare makes Hamlet say, when he will not have the king slain at his prayer ...

    ... e occasion to be grasped again.' The noun <i>hent</i> is not found elsewhere in Shakespeare, but the verb occurs twice in the sense of &#8216;seize, take.' The ...

    ... d make good sense here. Or <i>hent</i> may be for <i>hint</i>, which usually in Shakespeare means &#8216;opportunity, occasion.'&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla ...

    ... 201C;may be the noun corresponding to a verb of the same form used elsewhere by Shakespeare twice; the meaning would then be <i>grasp</i>, in the literal sense. ...

    ... of condemnations of such murders of the soul; her conclusion, that the reaction Shakespeare intended to produce in his audience was regretful condemnation of Ha ...

    ... hase of the play. Neither is one convinced, on the other hand, by Coleridge (<i>Shakespearean Criticism</i>, Vol. I, p. 29, following W. Richardson and T. Robin ...
679) Commentary Note for line 2364:
2364 When he is {drunke, a sleepe,} <drunke asleepe:> or in his rage,

    ... ed &#8216;to affirm' that Hamlet's words belied &#8216;his real sentiments' (<i>Shakespeare's Dramatic Charcters</i>, 1784, pp. 158-62), it became customary to ...

    ... #8216;only an excuse for his own want of resolution' (Hazlitt, <i>Characters of Shakespear's Plays</i>. Cf. Coleridge, 1.29-30; Bradley, pp. 134-5). The dominan ...

    ... ge, p. xv; Alexander, <i>Hamlet Father and Son</i>, 1955, pp. 144-6; Sisson, <i>Shakespeare's Tragic Justice</i>, 1962, p. 68). Yet such an explanation could ha ...

    ... approves them. On the contrary, a sensational convention is brilliantly used by Shakespeare for his own dramatic ends. First, theatrically, the convention facil ...
680) Commentary Note for line 2368:
2368 Then trip him that his heels may kick at heauen, {I2}

    ... e sure that he will not be able to recall them (Jusserand, <i>Roman au temps de Shakespeare</i>).&#x201D;</para> <hanging>trav: <sc>Dante </sc>analogue</hanging ...

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