And convoy is assistant, do not sleep, OPH. Do you doubt that? LAER. For Hamlet, and the triflinga of his fa vours, Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood; A violet in the youth of primy nature, с * Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, OPH. No more but so? LAER. Think it no more: For nature, crescent, does not grow alone a b trifling of his favours] Gay and thoughtless intimation. primy] Springtide, youthy. e Forward, not permanent] Early, ripe before due season, and thence having in it the principles of premature decay. This is so plainly the sense, that we have not hesitated to adopt the reading of the quartos, forward. d suppliance] The means of filling up the vacancy. Mr. Steevens finds the word in Chapman's Iliad, IX. "By my suppliance given." thews] Sinews, muscular strength. II. H. IV. Falst. III. 2. ' circumscrib'd unto the voice and yielding] Confined to the sense expressed, and limited to the inclination. • Froward. 1623, 32. * fear. 1623, 32. ⚫ Safety and health of this. 4tos. Whereof he is the head: Then if he says he loves you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it, As he in his particular sect and force a May give his saying deed; which is no further, Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal. Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain, If with too credent ear you list his songs; Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister; OPH. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As he in his particular sect and force May give his saying deed] As he in that peculiar rank and class that he fills in the state, and the power and means thereto annexed, may enable him to give his professions effect. "The deed of saying." Tim. V. 1. Painter. "Speaking in deeds." Tr. & Cr. IV. 5. Ulyss. For sect and force the quartos have act and place. с unmaster'd importunity] Unruly, unrestrained. keep you in the rear of your affection] Front not the peril: withdraw or check every warm emotion: advance not, as Johnson says, so far as your affection would lead you. d puff'd and reckless libertine] Bloated and swoln, the effect of excess; and heedless and indifferent to consequences. "Ignavus, inefficax, rechelesse." Ortus Vocab. 4to. 1514. Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, LAER. O fear me not. I stay too long;-But here my father comes. Enter POLONIUS. A double blessing is a double grace; b POL. Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard,* for a bord, a shame; The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, bord. 4to. aboord, aboord. And you are staid for: There, my blessing with 1623, 32. you; [Laying his Hand on LAERTES' Head. And these few precepts in thy memory Nor any unproportion'd thought his act." ment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, reade] Counsel. The old proverb in the Two angry Women of Abington, 1599, is, " Take heed, is a good reed." с d grace] Benefit. unproportion'd thought] Irregular, disorderly. opposed] One of the quartos gives opposer. each man's censure] Sentiment, opinion. STEEVENS. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: And they in France, of the best rank and station, LAER. Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord. LAER. Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well • What I have said to you. ОРН. 'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it." LAER. Farewell. [Exit LAERTES. POL. What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you? OPH. So please you, something touching the lord Hamlet. POL. Marry, well bethought: 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late b Given private time to you: and you yourself Have of your audience been most free and boun teous: If it be so, (as so 'tis put on me, с And that in way of caution,) I must tell you, yourself shall keep the key of it] Thence it shall not be dismissed, till you think it needless to retain it. Given private time to you] Spent his time in private visits to you. as so 'tis put on me] Suggested to, impressed on. As it behoves my daughter, and your honour: OPH. He hath, my lord, of late, made many Of his affection to me. POL. Affection? puh! you speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. Do you believe his tenders, as you call them? OPH. I do not know, my lord, what I should think. POL. Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, Or (not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, OPH. My lord, he hath impórtun'd me with love, In honourable fashion. POL. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to. I. O. C. OPH. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord, With almost all the holy vows of heaven. с POL. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do I. o. c. know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul C is between] Has passed, intercourse had. green girl, Unsifted] Raw, unwinnowed or exercised. IV. 5. King. woodcocks] Witless things. See M. ado, &c. V. 1. Claud. |