In the Quarto of 1676 the words 'I will come ... said' are marked in inverted commas to indicate that they were omitted by the actors. Pope following the arrangement of the Quartos, reading 'I will say so' with the Quarto of 1676. NOTE XX. III. 4. 4. We have adopted Hanmer's correction 'sconce' for 'silence' because in the corresponding passage of the first Quarto Polonius says: 'I'le shrowde my selfe behinde the Arras.' The Quartos of 1676, 1683, 1695 and 1703 give 'I'll here conceal my self.' In the Quarto of 1603 there is also a trace of the following speech of Hamlet, omitted in the subsequent Quartos but given in the Folios. NOTE XXI. III. 4. 51, 52. This speech is properly given to the Queen in the Folios, but is printed as prose. The second Quarto has: '_Quee._ Ay me, what act? _Ham._ That roares so low'd, and thunders in the Index, Looke heere &c.' This is followed by the subsequent Quartos, except the sixth, which has a colon at 'Index.' Warburton adopts the distribution of the Quartos, but alters the second line thus: '_Ham._ That roars so loud, it thunders to the Indies.' NOTE XXII. III. 4. 71. The reading 'stoop' for 'step' is found in manuscript in the margin of a copy of the Quarto of 1637, which has been kindly lent us by Dr Ingleby. The other readings in this play referred to as 'Anon. conj. MS.' or 'Anon. MS.' are from the same source. NOTE XXIII. IV. 1. 40--44. In the second and third Quartos these lines stand literatim as follows: 'And whats vntimely doone, Whose whisper ore the worlds dyameter, As leuell as the Cannon to his blanck, Transports his poysned shot, may misse our Name, And hit the woundlesse ayre, ô come away, My soule &c.' The later Quartos, including those of 1676, 1683, 1695, and 1703, spelling apart, have the same reading. In the first Folio, followed substantially by the rest, we find only these words: 'And what's vntimely done. Oh come away, My soule &c.' Rowe, Pope, Hanmer and Warburton followed the Folios. Theobald first adopted the text of the Quartos. In his _Shakespeare Restored_, p. 108, he had suggested 'Happily, slander,' or 'Happily, rumour;' in his edition he supplied the blank thus: 'And what's untimely done. For, haply, Slander (Whose whisper &c.' Hanmer, in his copy of Theobald's edition, erased the passage with a pen. Johnson, and Steevens in his editions of 1773, 1778 and 1785, followed Theobald. Capell filled the hiatus by '_So_, haply, slander,' and was followed by Steevens (1793) and most modern editors. Mason seems not to have consulted Capell's edition, for in 1788 he puts forward this reading as a conjecture of his own. Malone (1790) read: 'So viperous slander.' Mr Staunton proposes 'Thus calumny,' but in his text follows Capell. 'Malice' or 'Envy,' in the sense in which it is often used by Shakespeare, would suit the passage as well as 'Slander.' NOTE XXIV.