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201) Commentary Note for line 702:
702 Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,

    ... ara>702<tab> </tab><b>spheres</b>] <sc>Verity </sc> (ed. 1904): &#x201C;used by Shakespeare of the orbits of the stars.&#x201D;</para> </cn> <cn><sigla>1939<tab ...
202) Commentary Note for line 705:
705 Like quils vpon the {fearefull} <fretfull> Porpentine,

    ... >] <sc>Hudson</sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;Such is the old form of the word, and so Shakespeare always has it. It is commonly printed <i>porcupine</i>, both here an ...
203) Commentary Note for line 706:
706 But this eternall blazon must not be

    ... 706 is among the exceptions to the rule: &#x201C;Many of the words employed by Shakespeare and his contemporaries were the recent inventions of the age; hence ...

    ... Wright</sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;revelation of eternity. It may be however that Shakespeare uses &#8216;eternal' for &#8216;infernal' here, as in [<i>JC </i>1.2 ...

    ... > (ed. 1899): &#x201C;promulgation of eternity. But &#8216;eternal} was used by Shakespeare as an adjective expressing abhorrence,&#x201D; and he refers to <i>J ...

    ... </sc> (ed. 1987): "revelation of the mysteries of eternity. Schmidt notes that Shakespeare sometimes uses <i>eternal</i> &#8216;to express extreme abhorrence', ...

    ... mp; Taylor </sc> (ed. 2006): &#x201C;relating to the realm of the supernatural. Shakespeare often associates the word with 'infernal', as in Cassius' reference ...
204) Commentary Note for line 710:
710 Ghost. Reuenge his foule, and most vnnaturall murther.

    ... his is a proof this play was not wrote till after the 39 <i>Eliz.</i> 1597. (<i>Shakespeare </i>then 33,) when the first statute against vagabonds was made, inc ...

    ... : &lt;p. 247&gt; &#x201C;Hamlet's task would at best be a hard one. . . . [but] Shakespeare does not develop [the] political and practical aspect of the busines ...
205) Commentary Note for lines 714-15:
714-15 Ham. Hast <, hast> me to {know't} <know it>, | that {I} with wings as swift

    ... e ghost, is most remarkable:&#8212;[quotes 714-17]. &lt;/p. 20&gt;&lt;p. 21&gt; Shakespeare employs here&#8212;not by accident, I think&#8212;as illustrations o ...

    ... x201C;Hamlet's words convey no suggestion of speed at all, but the reverse. For Shakespeare with a touch of an irony that will &lt;/p. 74&gt; &lt;p. 75&gt; in i ...
206) Commentary Note for line 716:
716 As meditation, or the thoughts of loue

    ... is just, says,<sc> </sc>&#x201C;My hope is stronger than my Faith. I doubt that Shakespeare had Warburton's ideas in his skull, tho' these (for once) make very ...

    ... earth. But thought in the Prince of Denmark is an impediment, not a release. So Shakespeare interposes the retarding polysyllabic word 'meditation,' and suddenl ...
207) Commentary Note for line 719:
719 And duller shouldst thou be then the fat weede

    ... to embark on Charon's boat in order to cross the river. As <i>the fat weed</i> Shakespeare may have had in mind asphodel, which grew in the fields of Hades.&#x ...

    ... dull, </i> lethargic, inert. The whole image is one of torpor. <i>Dull</i> in Shakespeare is often applied to sleep (cf. 2093; <i>Cym.</i> 2.2.31, 'O sleep, ...

    ... gil's poppies in Lethean slumber (<i>Georgics, </i> 1: 78) is surely imaginary. Shakespeare need have had no particular plant in mind. Drayton had written of 'b ...

    ... ] <sc>Hibbard</sc> (ed. 1987): "It is not clear which, if any, &#8216;fat weed' Shakespeare has in mind. The asphodel, best known and most frequently mentioned ...

    ... l, &#8216;He's fat and scant of breath' [3756], appears to have been written by Shakespeare solely to provoke recollections of the earlier image [719], to provo ...
208) Commentary Note for line 720:
720 That {rootes} <rots> it selfe in ease on Lethe wharffe,

    ... rge fungus (Polyporus) growing on decaying wood, on the wood of the wharf where Shakespeare imagined Charon's boat to arrive and to start, There does not exist ...

    ... arf</i>, found again in [<i>Ant.</i> [2.2.213 (926)], appears to be peculiar to Shakespeare (<i>OED sb.</i>1 2c)."</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1988<tab></tab><sc>b ...
209) Commentary Note for line 722:
722 {Tis} <It's> giuen out, that sleeping in {my} <mine> Orchard,

    ... &#x201C;cf. [2132] .&#x201D; In his glossary, <sc>Verity</sc> says, &#x201C;in Shakespeare commonly if not always = &#8216;garden.' This was the original sense ...
210) Commentary Note for line 729:
729 Ghost. I that incestuous, that adulterate beast, {D3}

    ... c>&#x201C;<i>Th' </i><sc>adulterate</sc> <i>Hastings</i>,&#8212;]] I believe <i>Shakespeare </i>wrote. &#8216;<i>Th</i>' <sc>adulterer</sc> <i>Hastings,&#8212;< ...

    ... stained by adultery. The word can also mean 'corrupted' in a more general way; Shakespeare uses it in its literal sense in <i>Luc.</i> 1645, <i>Err.</i> 2.2.13 ...

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