Queen. If it be, Why feems it fo particular with thee? Ham. Seems, Madam? nay, it is, I know not feems? 'Tis not alone my inky, cloak, good mother, w,101 Nor cuftomary fuits of folemn Black, Nor windy fufpiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, valon o'li odsT Nor the dejected 'haviour of the vifage, apelos A To give thefe mourning duties to your father: 2 To do obfequious forrow. But to perfevere 3 In obftinate condolement, is a courfe your father loft a father; That father, his; and the jurvivor bound.] Thus Mr. Pope judiciously corrected the faulty copies. On which the editor Mr. Theobald thus difcants; This fuppofed refinement is from Mr. Pope, but all the eactions elfe, that I have met with, old and modern, read, That father loft, loft bis ;The reduplication of which word here gives an energy and an elegance WHICH IS MUCH EASIER TO BE CONCEIVED THAN EX PLAINED IN TERMS. I believe fo: For when explained in terms . it comes to this; That father af ter he had loft himself, loft his father. But the reading is fide Codicis, and that is enough. WARBURTON, I do not admire the repetition of the word, but it has fo much of our authour's manner, that I find no temptation to recede from the old copies. 2 obfequious forrowu.] Obquious is here from obfequies, or funeral ceremonies. 3 In obfino te condolement.-] Condolement, for forrow; because forrow is used to be condoled. A WARBURTON. Of H Of impious ftubbornness, unmanly grief. As of a father: for let the world take note, And we beseech you, bend you to remain Queen. Let not thy mother lofe her prayers, Hamlet; div Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come; Ham. Oh, that this too too folid flesh would melt,/. Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! , Or that the Everlasting had not fixt His cannon 'gainst self-flaughter! O God! O God; That grows to feed; things rank, and grofs in nature, two So excellent a King, that was, to this, Hyperion to a Satyr; fo loving to my mother," 2 That he might not let e'en the winds of heav'n! Vifit her face too roughly. Heav'n and earth !! !234 Must remember? why, fhe would hang on him,sul bool s51 OY HODGE As if Increase of Appetite had grown Let me not think-Frailty, thy name is Woman ! 3 O heav'n! 3 a beaft, that wants difcourfe of reafon, Would have mourn'd longer, married with mine uncle i My father's brother; but no more like my father, be a little far-fetch'd; but it has an exquifite beauty. By the Satyr is meant Pan, as by Hyperion, Apollo. Pan and Apollo were brothers, and the allufion is to the contention, between those two Gods for the preference in mufick. WARBURTON. of a fingle letter, and the feparation of two words mistakenly jumbled together, I am verily perfuaded, I have retrieved the Poet's reading. That he might not let e'en the winds of heav'n, &c. THEOBALD. 3 -a beast, that wants dif courfe of reafon.] This is finely expreffed, and with a philofophical exactnefs. Beafts want not reafon, but the difcourfe of reafon: i. e. the regular inferring one thing from another by the affiftance of univerfals. WARBURTON." Difcourfe of reafon, as the logicians name the third operation of the mind, is indeed a philofophical term, but it is fine no otherwife than as it is proper; it coft the authour nothing, being the common language of his time. Of finding fuch beauties in any poet there is no end. Than Than I to Hercules. Within a month! She married. Oh, moft wicked speed, to poft 盖 But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. SCENE Enter Horatio, Bernardo, and Marcellus Hor. Hail to your Lordship! Ham I am glad to fee you well;79054 Horatio, —or I do forget my self? Hor. The fame, my lord, and your poor fervant ever. Ham. Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you; And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Mar. My good lord 5 Ham. I am very glad to fee you; good even, Sir. But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?1 Hor. A truant difpofition, good my lord. Ham. I would not hear your enemy fay fo Nor fhall you do mine ear that violence, To make it Trufter of your own report Against yourself. I know, you are no truant; -good even, Sir. ] So the copies. Sir Th. Hanmer and Dr. Warburton put it, ond marning. The alteration is of no importance, but all licence is dan gerous. There is no need of any change. Between the first and eighth fcene of this act it is ap parent that a natural day must pafs, and how much of it is al-ready over, there is nothing that can determine. The King has held a council. It may now as well be evening as morning. |