His comic scenes are happily wrought, but his pathetic strains are always polluted with some unexpected depravations. His persons, however distressed, _have a conceit left them in their misery, a miserable conceit_. HAMLET (145,2) This play is printed both in the folio of 1623, and in the quarto of 1637, more correctly, than almost any other of the works of Shakespeare. I.i.29 (147,7) approve our eyes] Add a new testimony to that of our eyes. I.i.33 (147,8) What we two nights have seen] This line is by Hanmer given to Marcellus, but without necessity. I.i.63 (149,9) He smote the sledded Polack on the ice] Polack was, in that age, the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Polaque, French. As in a translation of Passeratius's epitaph on Henry III. of France, published by Camden: "Whether thy chance or choice thee hither brings, "Stay, passenger, and wail the best of kings. "this little stone a great king's heart doth hold, "Who rul'd the fickle French and Polacks bold: "So frail are even the highest earthly things, "Go, passenger, and wail the hap of kings." (rev. 1776, I, 174,3) I.i.65 (149,2) and just at this dead hour] The old reading is, _jump at this same hour; same_ is a kind of correlative to _jump; just_ is in the oldest folio. The correction was probably made by the author. I.i.68 (149,4) gross and scope] General thoughts, and tendency at large. (1773) I.i.93 (151,7) And carriage of the articles design'd] _Carriage_, is _import; design'd_, is _formed, drawn up between them_. I.i.96 (151,8) Of unimproved mettle hot and full] _Full of unimproved mettle_, is full of spirit not regulated or guided by knowledge or experience. I.i.100 (151,1) That hath a stomach in't] _Stomach_, in the time of our author, was used for _constancy, resolution_. I.i.107 (152,3) romage] Tumultous hurry. (1773) I.i.108-125 (152,3) These, and all other lines confin'd within crotchets throughout this play, are omitted in the folio edition of 1623. The omissions leave the play sometimes better and sometimes worse, and seen made only for the sake of abbreviation. I.i.109 (152,4) Well may it sort] The cause and the effect are proportionate and suitable. (1773) I.i.121 (152,7) Was even the like precurse of fierce events] Not only such prodigies have been seen in Rome, but the elements have shewn our countrymen like forerunners and foretokens of violent events. (1773) I.i.128 (153,1) If thou hast any sound] The speech of Horatio to the spectre is very elegant and noble, and congruous to the common traditions of the causes of apparitions. I.i.153 (154,2) Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine]