350-1 Sir. . . you] Johnson (ed.1773): "I’ll be your servant, you shall be my friend. Johnson."

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350-1 Seymour (1805, 2:147): "Dr. Johnson’s explanation may be right; but perhaps Hamlet means to say, that between Horatio and himself the name of friend shall be current: ’Do not call yourself my servant; you are my friend; so I shall call you, and so I would have you call me.’ If this be the sense, the line should be pointed thus: ’Sir, my good friend; I’ll change that name with you.’ "

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350-1 Sir. . . you] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Reciprocally use: I’ll put myself upon an exact level with you.”

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350-1 Verplanck (ed. 1844): "John Kemble’s manner of giving this line is the best explanation of its sense, which has been mistaken: ’ "My good friend, I’ll change that name with you." ’ as if he had said, ’No, not my poor servant. We are friends; that is the style I will interchange with you.’ "

350-1 Delius (ed. 1854): "Hamlet will sich als Horatio’s armen Diener, ihn aber als seinen guten Freund angesehen wissen." [Hamlet wants to be known as Horatio’s poor servant, Horatio as his good friend.]

350-1 Sir. . . you] Hudson (ed. 1856): “As if he had said, ’No, you are not my poor servant: we are friends: that is the style I will exchange with you.’ Kemble gave the true sense by laying the emphasis thus: ’Sir, my good friend: I’ll change that name with you.’ H"

350-1 Sir. . . you] Halliwell (ed. 1865): “Hamlet means that he will change the name Horatio has given himself, that of poor servant, to good friend; or, perhaps, as Johnson, explains it,—I’ll be your servant, you shall be my friend.”

350-1 Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1868): “Hamlet means that he will exchange the name of ‘friend’ between Horatio and himself: but not suffer him to address him as ‘my lord,’ or call himself ‘your poor servant.’”

Ed. note: Horatio says ‘my lord” in 357, and calls Hamlet “lord” throughout the play. In 3.2 he calls him ‘sweete Lord,” 1903, and “deere Lord,” 1906.

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350-1 MacDonald (ed. 1885): “1st Q, ‘O my good friend, I change, &c.’ This would leave it doubtful whether he wished to exchange servant or friend; but ‘Sir, my good friend,’ correcting Horatio, makes his intent plain.”

351 change that name] Mull (ed. 1885): “that of servant.”

350-1 Ridley (ed. 1934): “the relation is friend and friend, not prince and servant.”

350-1 change] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “exchange.”

350-1 change] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "exchange. I will not call you ’servant,’ nor shall you call me ’lord’: we will call each other ’friend.’ "

351 change] Rylands (ed. 1947): "exchange the name of friend."

351 change that name] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “exchange the name of ’servant’, i.e., I am your servant. Alternatively the name is that of ’friend’, i.e., Friend (not servant) is what we will call one another. Cf. below, 454-5 (duty . . . loves).”

351 that name] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “i.e. of servant (in the courtly sense)”

351 change that name] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "exchange that name ‘servant’, or, possibly, that name ‘friend’. Compare ‘A friend is one’s second self’ (Tilley F696)."