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181) Commentary Note for line 633:
632 633 Haue burst their {cerements?} <cerments,> why the Sepulcher,

    ... ced as a trisyllable. &#8216;Sepulchre' is usually, but not always, accented by Shakespeare on the first syllable.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla>1872<tab> </ta ...

    ... 12;to close up by burning or heating. But Steevens and Malone suggest that here Shakespeare licentiously cast aside its primary sense, and used it as meaning si ...

    ... 1604; but this is because it was a word newly adopted into English (possibly by Shakespeare himself). This can be seen from Cotgrave, who, under the French &#82 ...
182) Commentary Note for line 634:
634 Wherein we saw thee quietly {interr'd} <enurn'd,>

    ... e modern editions prefer Q2's 'interr'd', which also appears in Q1. No one but Shakespeare could have created so strong a reading as 'enurned'. 'urn' was ofte ...

    ... encloses the body as though it were a funerary urn. It has been suggested that Shakespeare wrote 'enurned' during revision. It is much more probable that it w ...
183) Commentary Note for line 635:
635 Hath op't his ponderous and marble iawes,

    ... ts prefiguring in Jonah's from the whale (Matthew 12.39-40), and concludes that Shakespeare has 'fused the imagery of sepulchre and whale'. But a sepulchre can ...
184) Commentary Note for line 637:
637 That thou dead corse, againe in compleat steele

    ... he accent back when the next syllable in the verse is accented. See Schmidt, <i>Shakespeare Lexicon</i> pp. 1413-1415. Cf. [746, and other examples]." </para> < ...
185) Commentary Note for line 638:
638 Reuisites thus the glimses of the Moone,

    ... t;p. 222&gt;&#x201C;<i>Glimpse</i> is lost, or nearly so, in the sense in which Shakespeare here uses it. The following passage in Harington's Ariosto contains ...
186) Commentary Note for line 639:
639 Making night hideous, and we fooles of nature

    ... examples in the most elegant and learned writers, cannot justly be charged upon Shakespeare as vulgar and ignorant. In the comic and burlesque style, Dr. Lowth ...

    ... &#x201D; sound perfectly good to the ear. On the other hand, he seems to excuse Shakespeare on the ground that his images are clear and in the rush of creativit ...

    ... e.g. <i>are made. </i>Either way, it is an instance of what we get so often in Shakespeare viz. irregularity of syntax reflecting the speaker's agitation. For ...
187) Commentary Note for line 640:
640 So horridly to shake our disposition

    ... [1391]) quotes <sc>cln1</sc>: &#x201C;<sc>Clarendon: </sc>This word is used by Shakespeare not only in its modern sense of <i>settled </i>character, [Greek], b ...
188) Commentary Note for line 648:
648 It {waues} <wafts> you to a more remooued ground,

    ... </i>,' &amp;c.; and so Caldecott and Mr. Knight. But there can be no doubt that Shakespeare in these three places used <i>the same form of the word</i>; and as ...

    ... son &amp; Taylor </sc> (ed. 2006): &#x201C;gestures by waving its hand or arm. 'Shakespeare is thinking in terms of the theatre. The <i>platform</i> is out of d ...
189) Commentary Note for line 655:
655 And for my soule, what can it doe to that {D2}

    ... sc>Kittredge</sc> (ed. 1939): "This, as well as many other passages, shows that Shakespeare does not mean to represent Hamlet as questioning the main doctrines ...
190) Commentary Note for line 660:
660 That {bettles} <beetles> ore his base into the sea,

    ... Shakespearean nonce-word but obviously derives from <i>beetle brows, </i> which Shakespeare was not the first to ascribe figuratively to a hill (see OED beetle ...

    ... >Edwards</sc> (ed. 1985): "overhangs like bushy eyebrows. As <i>OED</i> notes, Shakespeare coined the verb 'beetle' from a recollection of a passage in Sidney' ...

    ... s</b>] <sc>Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): "projects itself, threateningly overhangs. Shakespeare seems to have made up this verb which occurs nowhere else in his wor ...

    ... readers create a meaning for the new word, (iii) with an authority no less than Shakespeare behind it, the new word/meaning enters the language, (iv) result: we ...

    ... word/meaning enters the language, (iv) result: we get a new word/meaning which Shakespeare never intended.&#x201D;</para> <para><b>Ed. note: </b>Here is an ins ...

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