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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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1878 Bulloch

Bulloch: cam, theo

2626-9 Come . . . dismay] Bulloch (1878, p. 231-2): “The line with the hiatus is marked in the Globe with an obelus, and the Cambridge editors present a special note of thirty-three lines in which the differences between the Quarto </p.231><p.232> and Folio texts are treated at length, and the editors who followed the one or the other are noted. The text given in the passage is that of the Quartos, only the marks of deficiency in these are not given. In the Folio texts three lines and a half are omitted, beginning with the fourth line, and ending with the middle of the seventh. The last line and a half are tacked to the third line and thus making a rhyming couplet as above. From the Cambridge note we learn that Theobald was the first that attempted filling the gap [following this half line], and this has been followed more or less by subsequent editors as follows—‘For, haply, slander’; ‘So, haply, slander’; ‘So viperous slander’; ‘Thus calumny’; the opinion of the Cambridge editors being that ‘malice’ or ‘envy,’ in the sense in which it is often used by Shakespeare, would suit the passage as well as ‘Slander’. As the most likely term for the purpose I adopt the following—‘That so suspicion.’ The sibilation of the supplied words is more in keeping with whisper, and the king’s purpose was to avert that by open dealing which a contrary course would generate and increase.”

1891 dtn

dtn

2626 call vp] Deighton (ed. 1891): “summon to our assistance.”

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2: standard

2626 wisest friends] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “It is not clear who, apart from the dead Polonius, are the King’s councillors, though some productions do supply silent courtiers for this purpose.”