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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman

For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.

199 Coleagued with {this} <the> dreame of his aduantage	1.2.21

1723- mtby2

mtby2

199 Coleagued] Thirlby (1723-) : an Cologued Q coleagued nb egg’d him on. D Colegued. Mr T. has it.”

Ed. note: “it” here refers to cologued, which theon has. It does not refer to what Q3 (D) has. “egg’d him on” appears to be a gloss not for Cologued but for coleagued.

1726 theon

theon

199 Coleagued] Theobald (1726, p. 5): “Tho’ all the printed Copies, that ever I have seen, concur in reading Colleagued in this Place, I cannot but think it carries a harsh and intricate Sense, and does not so aptly fall in with the Context. This makes me suspect it corrupted from a Word very near it, both in Sound and Writing, and which carries a much more plausible Meaning, as well as connects better both with what precedes and follows. ’Tis true, Colleagued signifies joined with, putting himself on the Side, or Faction of, &c. and therefore it is not to be utterly disallowed in Sense. But if we can only, with the Alteration of a Letter or two, substitute another Word that gives a stronger and more proper Image, and connects better with the Reasoning of the Passage; I hope, I shall be allowed to offer it, at least, as a Conjecture; if not as a Correction. Suppose therefore that Shakespeare might write it thus; . . . ‘collogued’ . . . . Here you have a Reason for the Young Man’s Opinion, and Proceeding, and for his Insolence in making the Demand on Denmark, viz. he being flattered, imposed on, cajol’d, by the Dream of his Advantage. However, if the Readers are inclined to imbrace the first Reading, I am willing to retract Mine, or at least keep it to my self, which I proposed but as a Guess. ”

1733- mtby3

mtby3 = mtby2

199 Coleagued]

1747 warb

warb

199 Coleagued] Warburton (ed. 1747): “The meaning is, He goes to war so indiscreetly, and unprepared, that he has no allies to support him but a Dream, with which he is colleagued or confederated. ”

1747- mtby4

mtby4

199 Coleagued] Thirlby (1747-) comments on warb: “ridiculous. . . . I cannot find sense in [?] this interpretation. Wt if we shd read Cologued?”

1755 Johnson Dict.

Johnson

199 Coleagued] Johnson (1755) on collogue: “To wheedle; to flatter; to please with kind words. A low word.”

1765 john1

john1 = warb

199 Coleagued]

1773 v1773

v1773 = john1

199 Coleagued]

1778 v1778

v1778 = warb, +

199 Coleagued] Steevens (ed. 1778): “Hanmer reads—collogued, and perhaps rightly, as this word is frequently used by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. So in Marston’s Malcontent, 1604: ‘Why look you, we must collogue sometimes, foreswear sometimes.’ Again, in Green’s Tu Quogue, 1599: ‘Collogue with her again.’ Again, in Heywood’s Love’s Mistress, 1636: ‘This colloguing lad.’ Again, in Swetnam Arraign’d, 1620: ‘For they are cozening, colloguing, ungrateful, &c.’ Steevens. ”

1784 ays1

ays1 = warb

199 Coleagued]

1785 Mason

Mason

199 dreame] Mason (1785, p. 373): “That is, this imaginary advantage, which he hoped to derive from the unsettled state of the kingdom.”

1785 v1785

v1785 = v1778

199 Coleagued]

1787 ann

ann = v1773

199 Coleagued]

1790 mal

mal = warb + theon, theo1 via jen without attribution

199 Coleagued] Malone (ed. 1790): “Mr. Theobald, in his Shakspeare Restored [1726], proposed to read—collogued, but in his edition very properly adhered to the ancient copies.”

1790- mtooke

mtooke:

199 Coleagued] Tooke (ms. notes in mal): hand symbol pointing to Malone’s note re Theobald. But not clear why.

1791- rann

rann ≈ Mason

199 Coleagued] Rann (ed. 1791-): “Colleagued] —Falling in with—Collogued—Being cajoled, or deluded by this imaginary advantage.”

1793 v1793

v1793 = mal

199 Coleagued]

v1793 ≈ Mason

199 dreame . . . aduantage] Steevens (ed. 1793): “This dream of his advantage” (as Mr. Mason observes) means only ‘this imaginary advantage, which Fortinbras hoped to derive from the unsettled state of the kingdom.’ Steevens.”

Ed. note: This note is one of many instances that Steevens uses mal and does not reinstate a note of his own that mal had omitted.

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793

199 Coleagued]

1813 v1813

v1813 =v1803

199 Coleagued]

1819 cald1

CALD1

199 Coleagued] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “United with this wild conceit.”

1821 v1821

v1821 = v1813

199 Coleagued]

1826 sing1

sing1 ≈ cald1

199 Coleagued] Singer (ed. 1826): “i.e. united to this strange fancy of, &c.”

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

199 Coleagued]

1854 del2

del2

199 Coleagued] Delius (ed. 1854): “Fortinbras hat keinen andern Verbündeten, als den Wahn, dass zu solchen Schritten jetze die Gelegenheit günstig sei.” [Fortinbras has no other ally than his mistaken assumption that the opportunity is now favorable to such a step.]

1870 Abbott

Abbott

199 Coleagued] Abbott (p. 16 n): “‘colleagued’ [199] for ‘co-leagued.’”

1870 rug1

rug1: standard

199 Moberly (ed. 1870): “A thought which he combines with the dream that he is now stronger than he was.”

1872 cln1

cln1 : standard

199 Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “With this imaginary superiority for his only ally.”

1877 v1877

v1877: theon, han, Abbott,

199 Coleagued]

v1877 = warb, cln1

199 dream]

1880 meik

meik ≈ standard + in magenta underlined

199 Coleagued] Meikeljohn (ed. 1880): “allied. The only instance of the word.”

1881 hud3

hud3 : standard

199 Coleagued] Hudson (ed. 1881): “Colleaguèd does not refer to, or, as we should, agree with Fortinbras, but with supposal, or rather with the whole sense of the three preceding lines. So that the meaning is, ‘his supposal of our weakness, or of our unsettled condition, United with his expectation of advantage.’”

1885 macd

macd ≈ hud3 without attribution

199 Coleagued] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “Colleagued agrees with supposall. The preceding two lines [197-8] may be regarded as somewhat parenthetical.”

macd ≈ hud3 without attribution

199 dreame of his aduantage] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “hope of gain.”

1885 mull

mull ≈ Mason (via v1821 probably)

199 of] Mull (ed. 1885): “of deriving.”

1899 ard1

ard1: theon conj.; hud3 gloss without attribution

199 Coleagued]

Ed. note: ard1 does not mention that theobald withdrew his conj. in his ed. —as mal had mentioned.

ard1: cln1 gloss without attribution

199 his aduantage]

1918 TLS

Sargeaunt contra Wilson

199 this dream] Sargeaunt (“Hamlet’s Solid Flesh,” TLS 1918: 417-18) argues that this does not modify dream but refers to the supposal.

1938 parc

parc

199 aduantage] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “superiority.”

1939 kit2

kit2: standard + in magenta underlined

199 Kittredge (ed. 1939): "with no ally except his false notion that this is a favourable moment for him. Dream is emphatic."

1947 cln2

cln2

199 Rylands (ed. 1947): "backed by his own imagined superiority."

1957 pel

pel1: standard

199 Coleagued] Farnham (ed. 1957): “united”

1958 fol1

fol1: standard

199 Coleagued] Wright & LaMar (ed. 1958): “allied.”

fol1: standard

199 aduantage] Wright & LaMar (ed. 1958): “superiority.”

1970 pel2

pel2 = pel1

199 Coleagued] Farnham (ed. 1970): “united”

1980 pen2

pen2

199 Coleagued with] Spencer (ed. 1980): “having as an (imaginary) ally and supporter. But perhaps this is the main verb (Young Fortinbras being the subject), with a full stop after advantage.”

pen2

199 dreame . . . aduantage] Spencer (ed. 1980): “fanciful estimate of his superiority.”

1982 ard2

ard2: contra warb; ard1; cam3 +

199 Coleagued] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “allied. The assumption that it must qualify the subject Fortinbras [195], led Warburton and others to explain that Fortinbras had only his own dream for an ally. Dowden and Dover Wilson, with better sense if not syntax, take it with ’supposal’. But I think it is to be taken as applying to the general idea of [196-8]. In Fortinbras’s motives his notion of Denmark’s weakness is linked with his dream concerning himself”

ard2:

199 dreame of his aduantage] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “either the illusion of his (present) superior position, or the vision of his (prospective) gain. The first goes better with this, the second with colleaged.”

1985 cam4

cam4

199 Edwards (ed. 1985): "Having as an ally only this illusion of a favorable opportunity."

1987 oxf4

oxf4

199 Coleagued with] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "allied to, united with. The notion seems to be that Fortinbras is impelled by two different considerations, both illusory, yet lending support to one another: on the one hand, his conviction that Claudius is a weak king and Denmark is in disarray; on the other, his belief in his own personal superiority to Claudius —his ’dream of his advantage.’ "

1988 bev2

bev2: standard

199 Coleagued] Bevington (ed. 1988): “joined to, allied with.”

bev2: standard

199 dreame . . . aduantage] Bevington (ed. 1988): “illusory hope of success. (His only ally is this hope.)”

1992 fol2

fol2: standard

199 Coleagued] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “i.e., in league with“

fol2: standard

199 aduantage] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “i.e., superior position“

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2

199 Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Fortinbras’s erroneous view of Denmark’s weakness is accompanied by (co-leagued with) a fantasy of his own advancement.”

ard3q2

199 Coleagued] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “co-leaguèd; oxf4 adopts this spelling (which actually appears first in Capell) in order to avoid the suggestion of modern ’colleague’ in the more usual ’colleagued’.”