* * * * * "Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while." The reading of Collier's folio, _outcry_, seems preferable. It occurs a little before in this scene. HAMLET. ACT I. SC. 1. "_With_ what we two nights have seen." * * * * * "Of unimproved mettle hot and full." I prefer 'inapproved,' of the 4to 1603. * * * * * "Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun." One line at least, as Malone also saw, has been lost after the first. Perhaps for 'disasters' we might read _distempers_: "distemperature of the sun" (1 Hen. IV. v. 1). * * * * * SC. 2. "And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?" I suspect that here and in a following line, and in ii. 2, we should read 'makes,' with an ellipsis of _be_. The answers seem to indicate it. * * * * * "Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine, And thy best graces; spend it at thy will." I think we should read '_my_ best' for the sake of sense. * * * * * "_Mine_ do I impart toward you. For your intent." * * * * * "He was a man, take him for all in all.... I shall not look upon his like again." There is an evident aposiopesis here. * * * * * SC. 3. "Forward not permanent, sweet _but_ not lasting." The metre requires the addition of a syllable. In the next line the folio omits 'perfume and'--a clear proof of the omissions made by printers. * * * * * "The friends thou hast and their adoption tried." The more appropriate term would seem to be _adaption_. * * * * * "Are of a most select and generous chief in that." This is not sense; so some read "Are most select and generous, chief in that." Steevens read _choice_ for 'chief'; and I have adopted his reading. The more appropriate term, however, would have been _taste_. * * * * * "Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase _To_ wrong it thus--you'll tender me a fool." This--with the omission of _To_, which had probably been effaced in the MS.--is the reading of the 4tos, and is most probably correct. (Introd. p. 79.) The editors of the folio, not seeing any sense in 'Wrong,' read 'Roaming,' which makes no sense at all; neither indeed does 'To wrong' make a very good one. We might read--supposing the allusion to be to a horse--_To run_, as in "You run this humour out of breath" (Com. of Err. i. 1). In King John (ii. 1) we have 'roam' for _run_. * * * * * "Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds."