Commentary notes (CN):

1. SMALL CAPS Indicate editions. Notes for each commentator are divided into three parts:

In the 1st two lines of a record, when the name of the source text (the siglum) is printed in SMALL CAPS, the comment comes from an EDITION; when it is in normal font, it is derived from a book, article, ms. record or other source. We occasionally use small caps for ms. sources and for works related to editions. See bibliographies for complete information (in process).

2. How comments are related to predecessors' comments. In the second line of a record, a label "without attribution" indicates that a prior writer made the same or a similar point; such similarities do not usually indicate plagiarism because many writers do not, as a practice, indicate the sources of their glosses. We provide the designation ("standard") to indicate a gloss in common use. We use ≈ for "equivalent to" and = for "exactly alike."

3. Original comment. When the second line is blank after the writer's siglum, we are signaling that we have not seen that writer's gloss prior to that date. We welcome correction on this point.

4. Words from the play under discussion (lemmata). In the third line or lines of a record, the lemmata after the TLN (Through Line Number] are from Q2. When the difference between Q2 and the authors' lemma(ta) is significant, we include the writer's lemma(ta). When the gloss is for a whole line or lines, only the line number(s) appear. Through Line Numbers are numbers straight through a play and include stage directions. Most modern editions still use the system of starting line numbers afresh for every scene and do not assign line numbers to stage directions.

5. Bibliographic information. In the third line of the record, where we record the gloss, we provide concise bibliographic information, expanded in the bibliographies, several of which are in process.

6. References to other lines or other works. For a writer's reference to a passage elsewhere in Ham. we provide, in brackets, Through Line Numbers (TLN) from the Norton F1 (used by permission); we call these xref, i.e., cross references. We call references to Shakespearean plays other than Ham. “parallels” (//) and indicate Riverside act, scene and line number as well as TLN. We call references to non-Shakespearean works “analogues.”

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1747 warb

warb

926 sauagenes] Warburton (ed. 1747): “Savageness, for wildness.”

warb

926 Of generall assault] Warburton (ed. 1747): “i.e. such as youth in general is liable to.”

1765 john1

john1 = warb

926 sauagenes]

john1 = warb

926 Of generall assault]

1773 v1773

v1773 = john

926 Of generall assault]

1778 v1778

v1778 = v1773

926 Of generall assault]

1785 v1785

v1785 = v1778

926 Of generall assault]

1787 ann

ann = v1785

926 Of generall assault]

1790 mal

mal = v1785

926 Of generall assault]

1793 v1793

v1793 = mal

926 Of generall assault]

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793

926 Of generall assault]

1805 Seymour

Seymour ≈ warb without attribution

926 Of generall assault] Seymour (1805, 2:166): “Attacking the constitutions of most young men.”

1813 v1813

v1813 = v1803

926 Of generall assault]

1826 sing1

sing1 ≈ warb without attribution; magenta shows new elements

926 sauagenes Of generall assault] Singer (ed. 1826): “‘A wildness of untamed blood, such as youth is generally assailed by.’”

1833 valpy

valpy ≈ warb without attribution

926 sauagenes] Valpy (ed. 1833): “For Wildness.”

valpy = warb without attribution

926 Of generall assault] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Such as youth in general is liable to.”

1854 del2

del2

926 sauagenes]Delius (ed. 1854): “savageness sagt bei Sh. weniger, als es jetzt sagt, = Ausgelassenheit.” [savageness in Sh. means less than it now does, = exuberance.]

del2

926 Of generall assault] Delius (ed. 1854): “ ‘Die Jeden anfällt, der sich Keiner entziehen kann.” [That which happens to everyone, can detract from no one.]

1856 hud1

hud1 = sing1 without attribution

926 Of generall assault]

1867 dyce2

dyce2 ≈ warb without attribution

926 sauagenes Of generall assault] Dyce (ed. 1867, Glossary): “A wildness in untamed blood, to which all young men are liable.”

1868 c&mc

c&mc = warb without attribution + two additional synonyms in magenta

926 sauagenes] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1868): “‘Wildness,’ ‘irregularly,’ ‘lawlessness.’”

c&mc ≈ warb without attribution

926 Of generall assault] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1868): “‘Which generally attacks youth,’ or ‘to which youth is generally liable.’”

1870 rug1

rug1: standard

926 Of generall assault] Moberly (ed. 1870): “such as generally attacks people.”

1872 hud2

hud2 = hud1

926 Of generall assault]

1872 cln1

cln1: xref; Cotgrave

926 vnreclamed] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “untamed. See [Rom. 4.1.47 (2476)]: ‘Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d.’ Cotgrave has: ‘Adomestiquer: To tame, reclaim, make gentle.’ A term of falconry.”

cln1 ≈ sing2

926 Of generall assault] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “such as generally attack youth.”

1873 rug2

rug2 = rug1

926 Of generall assault]

1877 v1877

v1877 = cln1 (minus 1st sentence)

926 vnreclamed] Furness (ed. 1877): “Clarendon: Cotgrave has ‘Adomestiquer: to tame, reclaim, make gentle.’ A term of falconry.”

v1877 = Dyce2

926 Of generall assault] Furness (ed. 1877): “Dyce (Gloss.): A wildness in untamed blood, to which all young men are liable.”

1881 hud3

hud3 = hud2

926 Of generall assault]

1885 macd

macd = cln1 (minus //, including falconry from Cotgrave) without attribution

926 vnreclamed] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “Untamed, as a hawk.”

macd

926 MacDonald (ed. 1885): “The lines are properly arranged in Q.

macd ≈ warb without attribution

926 Of generall assault] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “which assails all.”

1885 mull

mull contra standard

926 Of generall assault] Mull (ed. 1885): “All the editors regard this line as meaning, ‘that generally besets youth.’ I submit another for consideration: ‘breathe his faults in such a manner that they may seem like the taints of liberty, &c., and only like imputations (‘assaults’) of a common (‘general’) but not dishonourable nature breathe or put upon him.”

1904 ver

ver: standard

926 vnreclaimed] Verity (ed. 1904): “untamed; like a wild animal or bird.”

ver: standard

926 of generall assault] Verity (ed. 1904): “such as most young men are liable to.”

1938 parc

parc

926 Of generall assualt] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “common to all men.”

1939 kit2

kit2: standard

926 vnreclaimed] Kittredge (ed. 1939): " "not recalled from a state of wild nature; untamed by age and experience."

kit2: standard

926 of generall assault] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "attacking everybody; to which all young men are exposed."

1947 cln2

cln2: standard

926 vnreclaimed] Rylands (ed. 1947): "untamed."

cln2: standard

926 of generall assault] Rylands (ed. 1947): "to which many are liable."

1957 pel1

pel1: standard

926 vnreclamed] Farnham (ed. 1957): “untamed.”

pel1: standard

926 Of generall assault] Farnham (ed. 1957): “assailing all young men.”

1970 pel2

pel2 = pel1

926 vnreclamed] Farnham (ed. 1970): “untamed”

pel2 = pel1

926 Of generall assault] Farnham (ed. 1970): “assailing all young men”

1980 pen2

pen2

926 Spencer (ed. 1980): “a wildness . . . that attacks all indiscriminately.”

pen2

926 vnreclamed] Spencer (ed. 1980): “unreformed (like an untamed hawk).”

1982 ard2

ard2: xref; //

926 sauagenes] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “The characteristic of wild creatures, whose animal instincts, supposedly situated in the blood (see 468 CN, and cf. Tem. 4.1.53, ’th’ fire i’th’ blood’), are unreclaimed, i.e. untamed.”

ard2: standard

926 Of . . . assault] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “which assails men in general, i.e. to which most men are liable.”

1985 cam4

cam4

926 Of generall assault] Edwards (ed. 1985): "Which assails everyone."

1987 oxf4

oxf4: standard

926 sauagenes . . . assault] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "i.e. natural wildness of undisciplined passion to which all young men are prone."

oxf4

926 vnreclamed] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "untamed, unsubdued (originally a technical term in falconry."

1988 bev2

bev2: standard

926 Bevington (ed. 1988): “a wildness in untamed youth that assails all indiscriminately.”

1992 fol2

fol2: standard

926 Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “i.e., a wildness in untamed blood, which all young people can be accused of”

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2: //; xref

925 Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “This indulgent view of Laertes’ misdemeanours is expressed in the same terms as Lepidus’ excuses for Antony: ’His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, / More fiery by night’s blackness’ (Ant. 1.4.12-13). See also [3700 CN]”