ched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better 5: take thy fortuneD
Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger 6.
Leave wringing of 7 your hands: peace! sit you down,
And let me wring your heart; for so I shaH, 35
If it be made of penetrable stuff,
If damned custom have not brass'd it s so
That it be proof and bulwark against sense s .
Queen. What have I done, that thou dar'stwag ø thy
[tongue
In noise so rude against me?
Ham. Such an act 40
rapier", IV', x, 10, unhesitatingly to
keep his promise to himself of the
scene before, 1. 91-2..--For : I'll
wager.---Through the arras; cp.
Queen Elizabeth herself, in fits of
terror ($usserand, Hist. Lit..Peuple
Anglais, vol. II, p. 700).
1.0 me: 0 woe is me, III,
2..Nay: do not ask ne.!s it the
KingP When Edmund Kean(1787-
1833)---to see and hear whom was,
Coleridge said, like reading Sha-
kespeare by flashes of lightning--
first spoke these words, "the whole
theatre rose in wild appreciation
(Stopford ]3rookel.
3. Marry, generally transitive
now.---Note the grim mockery of
the facae, jingling rhyme.
4. Que, en, in sincere amazement.
See Prof. Bradley's study of Ger-
trude's "soft animal nature, very
dull and very shallow. She loved
to be happy like a sheep in the sun,
and... it pleased her to see (or
imagine) others happy like more
sheep in the sun." Cp. p. 130 n.5.
5. Better, superior in rank.
6. Cp. Y, , 57-62, on the "for-
tune" of other bustbodies in the
King's evil service.
7. Leae, II, i, 51.--0I, I, v, 175.
8. Damned, "of habits devil'
(162); cp. p. !21 n.
