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Notes for lines 1018-2022 ed. Eric Rasmussen
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
1148-9 O deere Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers, I haue not art to | recken 
1860 Walker
Walker : bacon
1148-9 these numbers] Walker (1860, p. 264): “This for the, ut saepe is ejusmodi sententiss. So, I think, in Bacon’s Essay of Suitors, ad fin.,—’There are no worse instruments than these general contrivewrs of suits, for they are but a kind of poison and infection to public proceedings. See context. Chapman, Il.xv., Taylor, vol. ii. p. 54, — ‘—well, thou know’st, these greatest born, (majores natu), the Furies follow still.’ xvii. p. 106, antepenult.; see context, — ‘strange effects contended In these immortal heaven-bred horse of great Æacides;’ for these does not seem likely to be an erratum for those. P. 123, — ‘these deep-breasted dames Of Illium and Dardania’. Achilles is speaking.”
1872 cln1
cln1
1148 ill] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): "Compare Love’s Labour’s Lost, i. 2. 42: ’ I am ill at reckoning.’ "
1881 hud2
hud2
1148-9 these numbers] Hudson (ed. 1881): “Hamlet is tacitly quibbling: he first uses numbers in the sense of verses, and here implies the other sense.”
1899 ard1
ard1 : delius
1149 recken] Dowden (ed. 1899): “Delius suggests that this may mean ‘to number metrically.’”
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