III.iv.82 (270,5) Rebellious hell,/If thou canst mutiny in a matron's bones] I think the present reading right, but cannot admit that HANMER's emendation ["Rebellious heat"] produces nonsense. May not what is said of _heat_, be said of _hell_, that it will mutiny wherever it is quartered? Though the emendation be elegant, it is not necessary. (1773) III.iv.88 (271,6) reason panders will] So the folio, I think rightly; but the reading of the quarto is defensible; --_reason_ pardons _will_. III.iv.90 (271,7) grained] Dyed in grain. III.iv.92 (271,8) incestuous bed] The folio has _enseamed_, that is, _greasy_ bed. III.iv.98 (271,9) vice of kings!] a low mimick of kings. The vice is the fool of a farce; from whom the modern _punch_ is descended. III.iv.102 (272,2) A king of shreds and patches] This is said, pursuing the idea of the _vice of kings_. The _vice_ was dressed as a fool, in a coat of party-coloured patches. III.iv.107 (272,3) lap's in time and passion] That, having suffered _time_ to _slip_, and _passion_ to _cool, lets go_, &c. III.iv.151 (274,6) And do not spread the compost on the weeds/To make them ranker] Do not, by any new indulgence, heighten your former offences. III.iv.155 (274,7) curb] That is, _bend_ and _truckle_. Fr. _courber_. III.iv.161 (274,8) That monster custom, who all sense doth eat/ Of habits evil, is angel yet in this] [Thirlby: habits evil] I think THIRLBY's conjecture wrong, though the succeeding editors have followed it; _angel_ and _devil_ are evidently opposed. [Steevens accepted "evil"] III.iv.203 (277,5) adders fang'd] That is, adders with their _fangs_, or _poisonous teeth_, undrawn. It has been the practice of mountebanks to boast the efficacy of their antidotes by playing with vipers, but they first disabled their fangs. IV.i (278,l) _A royal apartment. Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern_] This play is printed in the old editions without any separation of the acts. The division is modern and arbitrary; and is here not very happy, for the pause is made at a time when there is more continuity of action than in almost any other of the scenes. IV.i.18 (278,2) out of haunt] I would rather read, _out of_ harm. IV.i.25 (279,3) his very madness, like some ore among a mineral of metals base, Shews itself pure] Shakespeare seems to think _ore_ to be _or_, that is, gold. Base metals have _ore_ no less than precious. IV.ii.19 (281,5) he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw] The quarto has _apple_, which is generally followed. The folio has _ape_, which HANMER has received, and illustrated with the following note. "It is the way of monkeys in eating, to throw that part of their food, which they take up first, into a pouch they are provided with on the side of their jaw, and then they keep it, till they have done with the rest."