II.ii.412 (220,2) Buz, buz!] Mere idle talk, the _buz_ of the vulgar. II.ii.414 (220,3) _Then came each actor on his ass_] This seems to be a line of a ballad. II.ii.420 (221,6) For the law of writ, and the liberty, these are the only men] All the modern editions have, _the law of_ wit, _and the liberty_; but both my old copies have, _the law of_ writ, I believe rightly. _Writ_, for _writing, composition_. Wit_ was not, in our author's time, taken either for _imagination_, or _acuteness_, or _both together_, but for _understanding_, for the faculty by which we _apprehend_ and _judge_. Those who wrote of the human mind distinguished its primary powers into _wit_ and _will_. Ascham distinguishes _boys_ of tardy and of active faculties into _quick wits_ and _slow wits_. II.ii.438 (221,8) the first row of the pious chanson] [It is _pons chansons_ in the first folio edition. POPE.] It is _pons chansons_ in the quarto too. I know not whence the _rubric_ has been brought, yet it has not the appearance of an arbitrary addition. The titles of old ballads were never printed red; but perhaps _rubric_ may stand for _marginal explanation_. II.ii.439 (222,9) For, look, where my abridgment comes] He calls the players afterwards, _the brief chronicles of the time_; but I think he now means only _those who will shorten my talk_. II.ii.448 (223,2) be not crack'd within the ring] That is, _crack'd too much for use_. This is said to a young player who acted the parts of women. II.ii.450 (223,3) like French faulconers] HANMER, who has much illustrated the allusions to falconry, reads, _like_ French _falconers. [French falconers_ is not a correction by Hanmer, but the reading of the first folio. STEEVENS.] (see 1765, VIII, 198, 1) II.ii.459 (223,5) (as I received it, and others whose judgment in such matters cried in the top of mine)] [i.e. whose judgment I had the highest opinion of. WARBURTON.] I think it means only that _were higher than mine_. II.ii.466 (224,8) but called it, an honest method] Hamlet is telling how much his judgment differed from that of others. _One said, there was no salt in the lines_, &c. _but call'd it an honest method_. The author probably gave it, _But I called it an honest method_, &c. II.ii.525 (226,9) _the mobled queen] Mobled signifies _huddled, grossly covered_. II.ii.587 (228,5) the cue for passion] The _hint_, the _direction_. II.ii.589 (228,6) the general ear] The ears of all mankind. So before, _Caviare to the_ general, that is, to the _multitude_. II.ii.595 (229,7) unpregnant of my cause] [_Unpregnant_, for _having no due sense of_. WARBURTON.] Rather, _not quickened with a new desire of vengeance; not teeming with revenge_. II.ii.598 (229,8) A damn'd defeat was made] [_Defeat_, for _destruction_. WARBURTON.] Rather, _dispossession_. II.ii.608 (229,1) kindless] _Unnatural_. II.ii.616 (229,3) About, my brain!] _Wits, to your work_. _Brain_, go _about_ the present business.