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Notes for lines 1018-2022 ed. Eric Rasmussen
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1759 Oph. My Lord.3.1.103
-1845 mhun1
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1759 My Lord.] Hunter (-1845, f. 245r): “Said with an accent of surprise or alarm was cuyring surprize at having so ambiguous a word as honest. Shakespeare uses it in its double sense elsewhere: ‘I do not think that Desdemona’s honest.’ Hamlet turns off the discourse with ‘If you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty’ & she then afufites the term honesty in its harmless sense.”
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