As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; Hamlet comes back; What would you undertake, More than in words? LAER. To cut his throat i'the church." KING. No place, indeed, should murder sanc tuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.(63) But, good Laertes, Will you do this? keep close within your chamber! Hamlet, return'd, shall know you are come home: We'll put on those shall praise your excellence, And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you; bring you, in fine, together, And wager o'er your heads: he, being remiss," LAER. I will do't: ■ To cut his throat i'the church.] Said, not as conceiving this, in contradiction to Hamlet, "know a more horrid hent." III. 3, the highest possible means of gratifying revenge, but as not hesitating, so far as respects offence committed by himself, to violate the sanctity of the house of God for such purpose. bhe being remiss] i. e. inattentive, as unsuspicious. с peruse the foils] i. e. closely inspect. d and in a pass of practice] i. e. a favourite pass; in which experience assured him of success: but fraud or artifice, a sense in which it occurs throughout our author, can hardly be supposed here to be excluded: for such was the use of an unfair weapon. Upon the origin of the use of this word in this sense we are indebted to Mr. Todd for new information. "Præc, Sax. is cunning, sliness: and thence Prat in Gaw. Douglas, is a trick of fraud. Latter times, forgetting the original of words, applied to practise the sense of prat." Dict. So 4tos. And, for the purpose, I'll anoint my sword. that. 1623, I bought an unction of a mountebank, 32. 1623, 32. So mortal, that but dip† a knife in it, + So 4tos. Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Ibutdipp'd. Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death, That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point With this contagion; that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death. KING. Let's further think on this; Weigh, what convenience, both of time and means, May fit us to our shape: if this should fail, And that our drift look through our bad performance, "Twere better not assay'd; therefore this project Should have a back, or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof." Soft; let me see: 1 cunnings. We'll make a solemn wager on your commings.‡° I ha't: 4to. 32. So 4tos. d When in your motion you are hot and dry, the. 1623, (As make your bouts more violent to that Send,) And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar❜d || him A chalice for the nonce ;(65) whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck, Our purpose may hold there. [But stay, what noise?] || preferr❜d. 4tos. a fit us to our shape] An image taken from the tailor's board: b If this should blast in proof] i. e. burst in the explosion or proof. Blast is a term in mining. с commings] i. e. meeting in assault, bout or pass at fence. Comming. Gall. Venue." Minshieu. "Venne. Fr. a coming, also a venny in fencing." Howell's Cotgrave's Dict. Fr. & Engl. Fo. 1673. as also a comming, Venue. d in your motion] i. e. exercise, rapid evolutions, as just before : "Had neither motion, guard, nor eye." e venom'd stuck] i. e. stroke from "tuck (estoc, Fr. G. item Stocco. Ensis longior." Skin.) or sticking piece. See Tw. N. III. 4. Sir Tob. and M. W. of W. II. 1. Shall. Enter Queen. How now, sweet queen? QUEEN. One woe doth tread upon another's heel,, * So 4tos. So fast they follow: Your sister's drown'd, Laertes. they'll. LAER. Drown'd! O, where? 1623, 32. QUEEN. There is a willow grows ascaunt† the + aslant a. brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There, with fantastick garlands, did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,(66) 1623, 32. 4tos. § her. 4tos. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : cull-cold. Unto that element :(69) but long it could not be, LAER. Alas, then, she is drown'd? QUEEN. Drown'd, drown'd. LAER. Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick, nature her custom holds, a snatches] i. e. scraps. See" snatches, i. e. catches, of his voice." Cymb. IV. 2. Belar. and M. for M. IV. 2. Clown. b muddy death] Mudded is a term, which, when speaking of this species of death, he repeats in the Tempest, III. 3. Alon. and V. 1. Alon. с our trick] i. e. our course, or habit; a property that clings to, or makes a part of, us. || So 4tos. buy. 1623. by. 1632. Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out." Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, * drowns. But that this folly doubts* it.(70) 4tos. & 1632. KING. [Exit. Let's follow, Gertrude : when these are gone, [Exeunt. The woman will be out] i. e. when these tears are shed, this womanish passion will be over. ACT V. SCENE I. A Church Yard. Enter Two Clowns, with Spades, &c. 1 Czo. Is she to be buried in christian burial, that wilfully seeks her own salvation? 2 CLO. I tell thee, she is; and therefore, make her grave straight: the crowner hath set on her, and finds it christian burial. 1 CLO. How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence? 2 CLO. Why, 'tis found so. 1 Czo. It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies the point: If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an act hath three branches; it is, to act,* to do, and to perform :(1) So 4tos. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly. 2 CLO. Nay, but hear you, goodman delver. 1 CLO. Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man; good: If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come a make her grave straight] i. e. straightways, forthwith; the fact next stated being a warrant for proceeding, without any further question made. "I will arraign them straight." Lear, III. 6. L. & " She must overboard straight." Pericl. III. 1. b It must be se offendendo] A confusion of things as well as of terms used for se defendendo, a finding of the jury in justifiable homicide. с If the man go to this water,—it is, will he, nill he, he goes] Still floundering and confounding himself. He means to represent it as a wilful act, and of course without any mixture of nill or nolens in it. Had he gone, as stated, whether he would or not, it would not have been of his own accord, or his act. is an act, &c. 1623, 32. |