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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.

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

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

2625 Into the Chappell; I pray you hast in this, <Exit Gent.> 2625	4.1.37

1723- mtby2

mtby2

2625 you] Thirlby (1723-): “fsql yr”

1733- mtby3

mtby3 = mtby2

1747-53 mtby4

mtby4 = mtby3

1870 rug1

rug1

2625 Into the Chappell] Moberly (ed. 1870): “That the ‘huggermugger’ burial may take place at once.”

1873 rug2

rug2 = rug1

1889 Barnett

Barnett

2625 Chappell] Barnett (1889, p. 53): “a smaller church. A Capella was the sanctuary in which was preserved the capa, or cope of St. Martin, hence any sanctuary containing relics. Lat. capella, a little cappa.”

1968 SQ

Hale

2625-28+4 Hale (1968, p. 35): “The blank passage from Hamlet [4.1.38 (TLN 2625-2628+4, IV.i.38-44)] makes it clear that the literature of gunnery, as well as that of archery, must be explored. In these books the word black appears, and frequently, but always in the sense of point-blank range, i.e. either the distance a bullet or a cannon ball flies more or less level with the bore of the gun before curving down towards earth, or any point within the distance.”

1969 SQ

Hale

2625-8 Hale (1969, p. 35): “. . . let us look again at the Shakespearian blank: ’As level as the cannon to his blank’ (4.1.42) = ’As level as the cannon sends its ball within the limit of its point range’. . . ’Target’ and ’range’ are implied in all these cases; but it is a specific line of fire the predominates in images depending on the true Shakespearian blank. "The blank passage from Hamlet [4.1.38] makes it clear that the literature of gunnery, as well as that of archery, must be explored. In these books the word black appears, and frequently, but always in the sense of point-blank range, i.e. either the distance a bullet or a cannon ball flies more or less level with the bore of the gun before curving down towards earth, or any point within the distance.”