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Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary

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2533 Repent what’s past, auoyd what is to come,	3.4.150

1805 Seymour

Seymour: Farquhar analogue

2533 auoyd . . . come] Seymour (1805, p. 189): “I know not how this is to be explained or understood; what is to come cannot be avoided; perhaps we should read: ‘—Avoid what else will come.’ i.e. Without repentance. Farquhar has committed a similar inaccuracy in The Beaux Stratagem, where Archer says,—’Past pleasures, for ought I know, are the best, for such we are sure of; whereas, those that are to come may disappoint us.’ Such language, from Foigard, would have been in character.—Archer might have said, those that are in prospect, only, may disappoint us.”

1877 v1877

v1877 ≈ Seymour

2533 what is to come] Furness (ed. 1877): “Seymour (ii, 189): What is to come cannot be avoided; perhaps, read ‘what else will come,’ i.e. without repentance.”

v1877 = john1 for weedes

1878 rlf1

rlf1: contra Seymour

2533 what is to come] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “Seymour would read ‘what else will come,’ as what is to come cannot be avoided; but this is to change rhetoric to logic, poetry to prose. Of course Hamlet means what is to come if the future is to be like the past, but it was not necessary to state it in that precise way.”

1903 p&c

p&c ≈ v1877

2533 Repent . . . auoyd] Porter & clarke (ed. 1903): “Repent the sin past; avoyd, take no part in, that to come.”

1903 rlf3

rlf3 ≈ rlf1 minus Seymour

2533 what is to come] rolfe (ed.1903): “That is, what is to come if the future is to be like the past.”

1931 crg1

crg1

2533 what is to come] Craig (ed. 1931): “i.e., the sins of the future.”

1980 pen2

pen2 ≈ crg1

2533 what is to come] Spencer (ed. 1980): “further opportunities of sinful behaviour.”

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2

2533 what. . . come] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “i.e. future sin or opportunities for sin (Hamlet elaborates on this at 157-68 [2541-2546+2]).”