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541) Commentary Note for line 2821:
2821 In hugger mugger to inter him: poore Ophelia

    ... hall no longer have the words of any author.&#8212;<i>Steevens </i>remarks that Shakespeare probably took the expression from the following passage in Sir Thoma ...

    ... se was common but may here echo North's <i>Plutarch</i> (Life of Brutus), which Shakespeare had recently used for <i>JC</i>: &#8216;Antonius thinking . . . that ...

    ... 01C;secretly, clandestinely. The phrase was common enough (Tilley H805), though Shakespeare does not use it elsewhere; but he could have been reminded of it by ...
542) Commentary Note for line 2840:
2840 Eates not the flats with more impitious hast 2840

    ... ;impetuous', influenced by the meaning of the word &#8216;piteous'. But perhaps Shakespeare uses it to mean &#8216;pitiless'.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>19 ...
543) Commentary Note for line 2841:
2841 Then young Laertes in a riotous head

    ... a riotous head</b>] <sc>Verity</sc> (ed. 1904): &#x201C;with a band of rioters. Shakespeare often uses <i>head</i> = &#8216;an armed force,' especially of rebel ...

    ... b>head</b>] <sc>Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): &#x201C;insurrection (OED sb. 29). But Shakespeare also has in mind head 17c, meaning &#8216;a high tidal wave'. In fac ...
544) Commentary Note for line 2842:
2842 Ore-beares your Officers: the rabble call him Lord,

    ... >] <sc>Werder</sc> (1907; rpt. 1977, pp. 23-24): &lt;p.23 &gt; &#x201C;Why does Shakespeare exhibit Laertes quite easily raising the people against the King? Wh ...
545) Commentary Note for line 2845:
2845 The ratifiers and props of euery word, 2845

    ... a very different picture. In short, there seems some ground for attributing to Shakespeare a measure of &#8216;anti-democratic conviction.' We have it in Spens ...
546) Commentary Note for line 2850:
2850 O this is counter you false Danish dogges. 2850

    ... <b>you </b>. . .<b> dogges</b>] <sc>Spencer</sc> (ed. 1980): &#x201C;Presumably Shakespeare took it for granted that the queen-consort of the monarch was a fore ...
547) Commentary Note for line 2863:
2863 Euen heere betweene the chast vnsmirched browe

    ... rched</b>] <sc>Collier</sc> (ed. 1858): &#x201C;This seems the only place where Shakespeare uses &#8216;unsmirched' meaning <i>unsullied</i>. In <i>H5</i> [3.3. ...

    ... browe</b>] <sc>Wilson</sc> (1934, rpt. 1963, 2:300): &#x201C;it is evident that Shakespeare intended to write the plural instead of the singular.&#x201D;</para> ...
548) Commentary Note for line 2866:
2866 That thy rebellion lookes so gyant like?

    ... 32;se-majest&#233;</i>' (Thomson, <i>Sh. and the Classics</i>, p. 118) and that Shakespeare had it in mind is suggested by the references to Pelion and Ossa in ...

    ... atop Mount Ossa in an attempt to storm Heaven and overthrow the Olympian Gods. Shakespeare would have known the story from Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses </i>(Book I) ...
549) Commentary Note for line 2868:
2868 There's such diuinitie doth hedge a King,

    ... t of the false king was superior and might justify this fine sentiment, or else Shakespeare himself may be suspected of laughing at this kind of royal heroics, ...

    ... >Rylands</sc> (ed. 1947): &#x201C;The idea of the Divine Right of Kings, which Shakespeare makes much of in <i>RII</i>, was encouraged by Queen Elizabeth and s ...
550) Commentary Note for line 2870:
2870 Act's little of his will, tell me Laertes 2870

    ... companied by <i>of</i> is often the expression of the motive of an action. Thus Shakespeare in <i>R2</i> 4.1.177 [2100]: <i>To do that office of thine own good ...

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