[Footnote 11: Who does not feel this passage, down to 'Region,'
thoroughly Shaksperean!]
[Footnote 12: Is not the rest of this speech very plainly Shakspere's?]
[Footnote 13: _wind_, I think it should be.]
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And boule the round Naue downe the hill of Heauen,
As low as to the Fiends.
_Pol_. This is too long.
_Ham_. It shall to'th Barbars, with your beard. [Sidenote: to the]
Prythee say on: He's for a Iigge, or a tale of
Baudry, or hee sleepes. Say on; come to _Hecuba_.
_1. Play_. But who, O who, had seen the inobled[1] Queen.
[Sidenote: But who, a woe, had | mobled[1]]
_Ham_. The inobled[1] Queene? [Sidenote: mobled]
_Pol_. That's good: Inobled[1] Queene is good.[2]
_1. Play_. Run bare-foot vp and downe,
Threatning the flame [Sidenote: flames]
With Bisson Rheume:[3] A clout about that head, [Sidenote: clout vppon]
Where late the Diadem stood, and for a Robe
About her lanke and all ore-teamed Loines,[4]
A blanket in th'Alarum of feare caught vp. [Sidenote: the alarme]
Who this had seene, with tongue in Venome steep'd,
'Gainst Fortunes State, would Treason haue pronounc'd?[5]
But if the Gods themselues did see her then,
When she saw _Pyrrhus_ make malicious sport
In mincing with his Sword her Husbands limbes,[6] [Sidenote: husband]
The instant Burst of Clamour that she made
(Vnlesse things mortall moue them not at all)
Would haue made milche[7] the Burning eyes of Heauen,
And passion in the Gods.[8]
_Pol_. Looke where[9] he ha's not turn'd his colour,
and ha's teares in's eyes. Pray you no more. [Sidenote: prethee]
_Ham_. 'Tis well, He haue thee speake out the
rest, soone. Good my Lord, will you see the [Sidenote: rest of this]
Players wel bestow'd. Do ye heare, let them be [Sidenote: you]
well vs'd: for they are the Abstracts and breefe [Sidenote: abstract]
Chronicles of the time. After your death, you
[Footnote 1: '_mobled_'--also in _1st Q_.--may be the word: _muffled_
seems a corruption of it: compare _mob-cap_, and
'The moon does mobble up herself'
--_Shirley_, quoted by _Farmer_;
but I incline to '_inobled_,' thrice in the _Folio_--once with a
capital: I take it to stand for _'ignobled,' degraded_.]
[Footnote 2: 'Inobled Queene is good.' _Not in Quarto_.]
[Footnote 3: --threatening to put the flames out with blind tears:
'_bisen,' blind_--Ang. Sax.]
[Footnote 4: --she had had so many children.]
[Footnote 5: There should of course be no point of interrogation here.]
[Footnote 6:
This butcher, whilst his hands were yet held up,
Treading upon his breast, struck off his hands.