So the originals read, except 4to 1603, which has _depriv'd_, perhaps a better reading. 'Despatch'd,' which seems to be more forceable, is to be taken in the sense of _dépêché_, Fr., hurried away, and 'of' in its original sense of from. * * * * * "Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin." Better to read 'blossom' and 'sins.' * * * * * "O horrible! O horrible! most horrible." Beyond question, as Johnson saw, this exclamation belongs to Hamlet. _Ham._ and _Ghost_ had been effaced. * * * * * "But come; _swear_ here, as before, never, so help you Mercy." The sense demands _swear_. ACT II. SC. 1. "That they do know my son, come you more nearer; Than your particular demand will touch it." By punctuating thus, and recollecting that 'Than' is _then_, we remove all difficulty. * * * * * "You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency." For 'That' we must read _Than_. Introd. p. 68. * * * * * "To speak of horrors--he comes _in_ before me." The addition of _in_, besides improving the metre, adds greatly to the force and vivacity of the passage. * * * * * "As he would draw it. Long _time_ stay'd he so." * * * * * SC. 2. "Pleasant and helpful to him.--Ay, amen." The folio omits 'Ay'; I read '_Amen_, amen,' as the metre requires. * * * * * "Both to my God, one to my gracious King." So the folio reads; the 4tos, more simply, have _and_ for 'one.' * * * * * "My news shall be the fruit to that great feast." So the 4tos properly read; the folio has _news_ for 'fruit.' * * * * * "If I had play'd the desk or table-book." Perhaps _ply'd_, as pretending to be occupied. In Tit. Andron. v. 2, the 4tos read '_ply_,' the folio '_play_ my theme.' * * * * * "And we all wail for.--Do you think 'tis this?" The originals read 'all we.' * * * * * "_To_ mark the encounter. If he love her not." * * * * * "Being a good kissing carrion.--Have you a daughter?" Warburton for 'good' read _god_, which alone makes sense. We have "common-kissing Titan" (Cymb. iii. 4). Malone also quoted from King Edward III.:-- "The freshest summer's-day doth soonest taint The loathed carrion that it seems to kiss." * * * * * "But not as your daughter may conceive." The 4tos omit 'not,' which was supplied by the folio, and is indispensable. * * * * * "Little eyases that cry out on the top of question."