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Notes for lines 2951-end ed. Hardin A. Aasand

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

3772 I pray you passe with your best violence	5.2.298

3773 I am {sure} <affear’d> you make a wanton of me.

1765 john1

john1

3773 wanton] Johnson (ed. 1765) : “A Wanton was, a man feeble and effeminate. In Cymbeline, Imogen says, “I am not so citizen a wanton, To die, ere I be sick.’ JOHNSON”

1773 v1773

v1773 = john1

3773 wanton]

1778 v1778

v1778 = v1773

3773 wanton]

1783 Ritson

Ritson

3773 wanton]Ritson (1783, pp. 214-5) : <p. 214>“i.e. you trifle with me, as if you were playing with a child. Dr. Johnson only observes that a wanton was a man feeble and effeminate. He might as well have said it was a horse or an elephant. </p. 214> <p. 215>‘—I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wantons bird, That lets it hop a little from his hand,And with a silk thread pulls it back again.’Romeo and Juliet”</p. 215>

1784 ays1

ays1 ≈v1778 (john1; minus Cym. //) w/o attribution

3773 wanton]

1785 v1785

v1785

3773 wanton] Ritson (apud Steevens, ed. 1785) : “I. e. you trifle with me as if you were playing with a child. So, in [Rom. 2.2.178 (985)]:‘I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton’s bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, And with a silk thread pulls it back again.’ REMARKS [RITSON]”

1787 ann

ann = v1785

3773 wanton]

1790 mal

Mal = v1778

3773 wanton] Malone (ed. 1790, 10:Appendix, p. 686): <p. 686> A passage in [Jn. 5.1.70 (2241] shews that wanton here means a man feeble and effeminate, as Dr. Johnson has explained it: ‘—Shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,’ &c. Malone.” </p. 686>

1791- rann

rann

3773 wanton] Rann (ed. 1791-) : “you treat me as you would a child, you trifle with me.”

1793 v1793

v1793 = v1778 ; v1785 ; mal Appendix

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793 +

3773 wanton] Steevens (apud Reed, ed. 1803) : “The following passage in the first scene of Lee’s Alexander the Great , may furnish a sufficient comment on the words of Hamlet: ‘He dallied with my point, and when I thurst, he frown’d and smil’d, and foil’d me like a fencer.’ STEEVENS”

1813 v1813

v1813 = v1803

3773 wanton]

1819 cald1

cald1

3773 wanton] Caldecott (ed. 1819) : “Make child’s play, trifle with me. ‘—so citizen a wanton , as To seem to die ere sick.’ [Cym. 4.2.8(2255)] Imog. ‘—Shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton , brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,’ [KJ 5.1.70 (2241)] Bast.”

1821 v1821

v1821 = v1813

3773 wanton]

v1821

3773 wanton] Boswell (ed. 1821, 21:Glossary): “an effeminate man.”

1826 sing1

sing1

3773 wanton] Singer (ed. 1826) : “i.e. you trifle or play with me as if I were a child.”

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

3773 wanton]

1833 valpy

valpy ≈ standard

3773 Valpy (ed. 1833): “i.e. you trifle with me, as if you were playing with a child.”

1843 col1

col1

3773 wanton] Collier (ed. 1843) : “a feeble effeminate person.”

1854 del2

del2

3773 wanton] Delius (ed. 1854) : “Laertes soll den dritten Gang mit angestrengtester Kraft machen (to pass) und nicht etwa den Hamlet wie einen weichlichen Stutzer (wantonwird von beiden Geschlechtern gebraucht) schonend behandeln.” [“Laertes shall pass the third time with aggressive force and perhaps not treat the untouched [spared] Hamlet as a tender prop (wanton was used of both genders).]

1856 hud1 (1851-6)

hud1 = sing1 without attribution

3773 wanton]

1856 sing2

sing2 = sing1

3773 wanton]

1857 elze1

elze1 : = john1(minus Cym. //)

3773 wanton] Elze (ed. 1857, 259-60)

1858 col3

col3 = col1

3773 wanton]

col3 ≈ col1

3773 wanton] Collier (2nd ed. 1858: 6: Glossary): “an effeminate person.”

1861 wh1

whi

3773 wanton] White (ed. 1861) : “a childish, effeminate person.”

1864-68 c&mc

c&mc

3773 wanton] Clarke (ed. 1864, Glossary): “‘Make a wanton;’ to trifle with.”

3773 wanton] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1864-68, rpt. 1874-78): “‘You treat me as if I were an effeminate creature.’ In [Jn. Act 4.1.?[5.1.70 (2241)], the term, ‘a cocker’d silken wanton,’ is used to express an effmininately stripling.”

1867 Ktly

Ktly

3773 wanton] Keightley (1867, p. 428): <p. 428> “from wendan, A.S., turn, change?) seems to have originally signified yielding, changeable. We have ‘the wanton green’ ([MND 2.2.?[2.1.99 (474)], ‘the wanton rushes’ ([1H4 3.1.209 (1753)]).” </p. 428>

1872 del4

del4 = del2

3773 wanton]

1872 cln1

cln1

3772 passe] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “See [4.7.137 (3128)].”

cln1

3773 make a wanton of] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “play the fool with, spoort or trifle with. Compare [R2 3.3.164 (1752)]:’Or shall we play the wantons with our woes?’”

1872 hud2

hud2

3773 make a wanton of] Hudson (ed. 1872): “To make a wanton of a man, as the phrase is here used, is to treat him as a child, to avoid playing your best with him, or rather to play the game into his hands.—This is a quiet, but very significant stroke of delineation. Laretes is not playing his best, and it is the conscience of what is at the point of his foil that keeps him from doing so; and the effects are perceptible to Hamlet, though he dreams not of the reason.”

1873 rug2

rug2 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of] Moberly (ed. 1873): “You only sport with me, and intend to let me win.”

1877 col4

col4 = col3

3773 wanton]

1877 v1877

v1877 : ≈ Ritson (from “You trifle . . . with a child”) ; ≈HUD2

1881 hud3

hud3 = hud2

3773 make a wanton of me

1882 elze2

elze2

3773 I am sure] Elze (ed. 1882): “[F1] I am affear’d; om. [Q1]. Either reading [Q2 or F1] may have been the poet’s own; [Q2], however, has the precedence in point of time and should be adhered to as far as possible.”

1883 wh2

Wh2 : standard

3773 wanton] White (ed. 1883): “a trifler.”

1885 macd

macd

3773 MacDonald (ed. 1885): “‘treat me as an effeminate creature.’”

1885 mull

mull

3772 passe] Mull (ed. 1885): “thrust.”

mull ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1889 Barnett

Barnett

3773 make a wanton of me] Barnett (1889, p. 64): <p. 64> “trifle with me.” </p. 64>

1899 ard1

ard1 : standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1906 nlsn

nlsn: standard

3773 wanton] Neilson (ed. 1906, Glossary)

1931 crg1

crg1 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1934 rid1

rid1 : standard

3773 wanton] Ridley (ed. 1934, Glossary):

1934 Wilson

Wilson

3773 sure] Wilson (1934, 2:280) prefers affear’d over Q2, adopted by JEN. He also presents the following pairs of F1/Q2 variants: <p. 281>

crimefull :criminall

doubts (=douts) : drownes

intill : into

rude : madde

sage : a

wisenssse : wisedome

vnseale : vnfold

Beauy : breede

affear’d : sure

Wilson concludes: “Inspecting this list no one, I think, can reasonably doubt that the first word in each pair belongs to Shakespeare, while the fact that the inferior redaings here come from the better text [Q2] should not, I hope, trouble readers who have followed the argument up to this point; some of them have already been explained as misprints, misreadings or miscorrections, and the rest may be with confidence assigned to the same categories. In a few instances the balance does not tilt so definitely on the side of F1, though since the latter gives an easier reading, attested by the votes of most editors, and since the Q2 variant is readily explicable in every case, there need be no hesitation in following the 1623 text.” </p. 281>

1934 cam3

cam3 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

cam3 : standard

3773 wanton] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary)

1939 kit2

Kit2

3772 passe] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “thrust.”

3772 passe] Kittredge (ed. 1939, Glossary): “thrust.”

kit2 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

3773 wanton] Kittredge (ed. 1939, Glossary):

1937 pen1a

pen1a : standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1938 parc

parc≈ standard

3773 wanton]

1942 n&h

n&h ≈ standard

3773 wanton]

1947 cln2

cln2 ≈ standard

3772 passe]

cln2 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1951 crg2

crg2=crg1

3773 make a wanton of me]

1954 sis

sis ≈ standard

3773 wanton] Sisson (ed. 1954, Glossary):

1957 pel1

pel1 : standard

3773 wanton]

1970 pel2

pel2=pel1

3773 wanton]

1974 evns1

evns1 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1980 pen2

pen2 ≈ standard

3772 passe]

pen2 ≈ standard +

3773 make a wanton of me] Spencer (ed. 1980): “Perhaps the implication is that Laertes’s bad conscience is affecting his skill.”

1982 ard2

ard2 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1984 chal

chal : standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1985 cam4

cam4 ≈ standard

3772 passe]

cam4 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1987 oxf4

oxf4 ≈ standard

3772 passe]

oxf4 ≈ standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

oxf4

3772 your best violence] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “i.e. the utmost force you are capable of.”

1988 bev2

bev2: standard

3772 passe]

bev2: standard

3773 make a wanton of me]

1993 dent

dent ≈ standard

3772 passe]

3773 make a wanton of me]

1992 fol2

fol2≈ standard

3772 passe]

3773 make a wanton of me]

3772 3773