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491) Commentary Note for line 2612:
2612 Ore whom, his very madnes like some ore

    ... > </tab><b>ore</b>] <sc>Mason</sc> (1785, p.391): &#x201C;Johnson suspects that Shakespeare mistook <i>ore</i> for <i>or</i>, that is <i>gold</i>; but he uses t ...

    ... <sc>Dowden</sc> (ed. 1899): &#x201C;Schmidt gives no meaning for <i>ore</i> in Shakespeare except &#8216;a vein of gold.' Clar. Press: &#8216;in the English-Fr ...

    ... son &amp; Taylor</sc> (ed. 2006): &#x201C;deposit or vein of [precious] metal. 'Shakespeare seems to think <i>ore</i> to be <i>Or</i>, that is, gold. Base metal ...
492) Commentary Note for line 2628:
2628 And whats vntimely doone,

    ... e, what an accurate and faithful Collator he is! I produc'd these Verses in my SHAKESPEARE <i>restor'd</i>, from a <i>Quarto</i> Edition of <i>Hamlet</i> print ...

    ... e, what an accurate and faithful Collator he is! I produc'd these Verses in my SHAKESPEARE <i>restor'd</i>, from a <i>Quarto</i> Edition of <i>Hamlet</i> print ...

    ... . <i>Malone</i> reads&#8212;&#x201C;<i>So viperous</i> slander.&#x201D; &#8211; Shakespeare again expatiates on the diffusive power of slander, in <i>Cym</i>. < ...

    ... </para> <para>&#x201C;Theobald first adopted the text of the Quartos. In his <i>Shakespeare Restored</i>, p. 108, he had suggested &#8216;Happily, slander,' or ...

    ... ed to <i>so h. s.</i> Del., Dyce, and Elze followed him. I believe though, that Shakespeare wrote, as I have taken it into the text: <i>by this, suspicion</i> e ...

    ... was missing in the manuscript which lies behind both texts, in other words that Shakespeare himself left it out, which would in turn explain why the whole passa ...

    ... SR, p.108) &#8211; calumny, malice, or suspicion. Though we can never know what Shakespeare wrote here, envious slander is at least Shakespearean. He often pers ...

    ... nvious would link slander's actions with their cause and it is a favourite with Shakespeare to describe malicious tongues. See <i>1H6 </i>[4.1.90 (1839)]; <i>2H ...
493) Commentary Note for line 2628+1:
2628+1 {Whose whisper ore the worlds dyameter,} 2628+1

    ... . <i>Malone</i> reads&#8212;&#x201C;<i>So viperous</i> slander.&#x201D; &#8211; Shakespeare again expatiates on the diffusive power of slander, in <i>Cym</i>. [ ...

    ... e is missing from the preceding line. Perhaps, but it seems equally likely that Shakespeare deliberately inserted a short (metrically &#8216;untimely') line at ...
494) Commentary Note for line 2636:
2636 Ham. {Compound} <Compounded> it with dust whereto tis kin.

    ... So also he gives no direct answer to Rosencraus when he repeats the enquiry. If Shakespeare did not design Hamlet to speak an untruth here, this must be the rig ...

    ... </i>. Jennens, however, suggests that <i>Compound</i> must be an imperative 'if Shakespeare did not design Hamlet to tell an untruth here. . . he. . . bids them ...
495) Commentary Note for lines 2641-43:
2641-2 Ham. That I can keepe your counsaile & not mine | owne, besides
2642-3 to be demaunded of a spunge, what {replycation} <re-| plication> should be made by
2643 the sonne of a King.

    ... squeezing a sponge and in the background the condemned hanging from a gallows. Shakespeare is thus in the tradition here, while adapting the image from extorti ...
496) Commentary Note for lines 2645-50:
2645-6 Ham. I sir, that sokes vp the Kings countenaunce, his | rewards, his
2646-7 authorities, but such Officers doe the King | best seruice in the end, he
2647-8 keepes them like an {apple} <Ape> in | the corner of his iaw, first mouth'd to be
2648-9 last swallowed, | when hee needs what you haue gleand, it is but squee-
2650 sing you, and spunge you shall be dry againe.

    ... plied to a sponge, which can scarcely have proceeded from a writer so exact as Shakespeare is in fitting his language to the operations he has to describe, par ...

    ... sense of <i>glut</i> is to <i>swallow</i>&#8212;a sense quite appropriate here. Shakespeare so uses the &lt;/2:343&gt;&lt;2:344&gt; word in the &#8216;Tempest,' ...
497) Commentary Note for lines 2656-57:
2656-7 Ham. The body is with the King, but the King is not | with the {K2}
2657 body. The King is a thing{.} <—>

    ... Medieval Political Theory</i> (Princeton, 1957), J. Johnson explains in the <i>Shakespeare Quarterly</i> 18 (1967), pp. 30-34: &#8216;The body (i.e. the body n ...
498) Commentary Note for line 2670:
2670 Deliberate pause, diseases desperat growne,

    ... e juxtaposition of words is so obvious that it is a little rash to suppose that Shakespeare had this passage in mind, or owed his thought to it.&#x201D;</small> ...

    ... ate disease must have a desperate cure' (Tilley D357), this idea is frequent in Shakespeare and is expressed with particular force in <i>Cor</i>.<i> </i>[3.1.15 ...
499) Commentary Note for lines 2672-2672+1:
2672 Or not at all. <Enter Rosincrane.>
2672+1 {Enter Rosencraus and all the rest.}

    ... defended by Granville-Barker (Prefaces, iii.126) and Munro&#8212;cannot be what Shakespeare envisaged. The pair are never otherwise separated on stage and altho ...

    ...
2685-6 Ham. Not where he eates, but where {a} <he> is eaten, a {certaine} <cer-| taine> conua-
2686-7 cation of {politique} wormes are een at him: your worme | is your onely
2687-8 Emperour for dyet, we fat all creatures els | to fat vs, and wee fat our
2688-9 {selues} <selfe> for maggots, your fat King | and your leane begger is but varia-
2689-90 ble {seruice, two} <service t ...

    ... e scribe was familiar, was misheard by him for the unusual word <i>palated</i>. Shakespeare employs to <i>palate</i> as a verb in <i>Cor</i>. [3.1.104 (1798)], ...

    ... e scribe was familiar, was misheard by him for the unusual word <i>palated</i>. Shakespeare employs to <i>palate</i> as a verb in <i>Cor</i>. [3.1.104 (1798)], ...

    ... , as the Old Corrector reads the phrase, could only mean (in the sense in which Shakespeare elsewhere uses the verb <i>to palate</i>) worms which have been tast ...

    ... some long time and still continues, the emphasis being laid on &#8216;now.' In Shakespeare the emphasis is often to be laid on &#8216;even,' and even now' mean ...

    ... e old gentleman been conspicuous for his ambition, it would have been just like Shakespeare to call the worms bred from him aspiring worms.'</small>&#x201D;</pa ...

    ... <b>politique</b>] <sc>Kittredge</sc> (ed. 1939): &#x201C;skilled at statecraft. Shakespeare may have remembered &#8216;the Diets of the Empire convoked at Worms ...

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