IV.ii.28 (281,6) The body is with the king] This answer I do not comprehend. Perhaps it should be, _The body is_ not _with the king_, for _the king is not with the body_. IV.ii.32 (282,7) Of nothing] Should it not be read, _Or_ nothing? When the courtiers remark, that Hamlet has contemptuously called the _king a thing_, Hamlet defends himself by observing, that the king must be a _thing_, or _nothing_. IV.ii.46 (283,9) the wind at help] I suppose it should be read, _The bark is ready, and the wind at_ helm. IV.ii.68 (284,3) And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,/ Howe'er my haps, my joys will ne'er begin] This being the termination of a scene, should, according to our author's custom, be rhymed. Perhaps he wrote, _Howe'er my_ hopes, _my joys_ are not begun. If _haps_ be retained, the meaning will be, _'till I know 'tis done, I shall be miserable_, whatever befall me (see 1785, VIII, 257, 3) IV.iv.33 (286,4) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?] If his highest good, and _that for which he sells his time_, be to sleep and feed. IV.iv.36 (286,5) large discourse] Such latitude of comprehension, such power of reviewing the past, and anticipating the future. IV.iv.53 (286,6) Rightly to be great,/Is not to stir without great argument] This passage I have printed according to the copy. Mr. THEOBALD had regulated it thus: --_'Tis not to be great, Never to stir without great argument; But greatly_, &c. The sentiment of Shakespeare is partly just, and partly romantic. --_Rightly to be great, Is not to stir without great argument_; is exactly philosophical. _But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour is at stake_, is the idea of a modern hero. _But then_, says he _honour is an argument, or subject of debate_, sufficiently great, _and_ when honour is at stake, we must _find cause of quarrel in a straw_. IV.iv.56 (287,7) Excitements of my reason and my blood] Provocations which excite both my reason and my passions to vengeance. IV.v.37 (289,4) _Larded all with sweet flowers_] The expression is taken from cookery. (1773) IV.v.53 (290,6) _And dupt the chamber-door_] To _dup_, is to _do up_; to lift the latch. It were easy to write, _And_ op'd-- IV.v.58 (290,7) _By Gis_] I rather imagine it should be read, _By_ Cis,-- That is, by St. Cecily. IV.v.83 (291,8) but greenly] But _unskilfully_; with _greenness_; that is, without_ maturity_ of judgment. IV.v.84 (291,9) In hugger-mugger to inter him] All the modern editions that I have consulted give it, _In_ private _to inter him_;--