III.iii.33 (262,7) of vantage] By some opportunity of secret observation. III.iii.56 (263,9) May one be pardon'd, and retain the offence?] He that does not amend what can be amended, _retains_ his _offence_. The king kept the crown from the right heir. III.iii.66 (263,1) Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?] What can repentance _do for a man that cannot be penitent_, for a man who has only part of penitence, distress of conscience, without the other part, resolution of amendment. III.iii.77 (264,1) I, his sole son, do this same villain send] The folio reads foule son, a reading apparently corrupted from the quarto. The meaning is plain. _I, his_ only _son_, who am bound to punish his murderer. III.iii.88 (264,2) Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent] [T: bent] This reading is followed by Sir T. HANMER and Dr. WARBURTON; but _hent_ is probably the right vord. To _hent_ is used by Shakespeare for, to _seize_, to _catch_, to _lay hold on_. _Hent_ is, therefore, _hold_, or _seizure_. _Lay hold_ on him, sword, at a more horrid time. III.iii.94 (265,3) his soul may be as damn'd and black/As hell, whereto it goes] This speech, in which Hamlet, represented as a virtuous character, is not content vith taking blood for blood, but contrives damnation for the man that he would punish, is too horrible to be read or to be uttered. III.iv.4 (266,4) I'll silence me e'en here:/Pray you, be round vith him] Sir T. HANMER, who is folloved by Dr. WARBURTON, reads, --_I'll_ sconce _me here_. _Retire_ to a place of _security_. They forget that the contrivance of Polonius to overhear the conference, was no more told to the queen than to Hamlet.--_I'll silence me even here_, is, _I'll use no more words_. III.iv.48 (268,8) Heaven's face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, It thought-sick at the act] [W: O'er this ... visage, and, as 'gainst] The word _heated_ [from the "old quarto"], though it agrees well enough with _glow_, is, I think, not so striking as _tristful_, which was, I suppose, chosen at the revisal. I believe the whole passage now stands as the author gave it. Dr. WARBURTON's reading restores two improprieties, which Shakespeare, by his alteration, had removed. In the first, and in the new reading: _Heaven's_ face _glows with tristful_ visage; and, _Heaven's face is_ thought-sick. To the common reading there is no just objection. III.iv.52 (268,9) what act,/That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?] The meaning is, _What is_ this act, of which the _discovery_, or _mention_, cannot be made, but with this violence of clamour?