Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,(34) b To business with the king, more than the scope Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. 1603. COR. VOL. In that, and all things, will we show our duty. KING. We doubt it nothing; heartily farewell. And now, Laertes, what's the news with you? And lose your voice: What wouldst thou beg, So 4tos. Laertes, That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? The head is not more native to the heart, a Colleagued with the dream] i. e. united with this wild conceit. b power to business] i. e. for the purpose of, commission to transact, business. You cannot speak of reason to the Dane, And lose your voice] i. e. of any matter fit to be brought under discussion, and throw away your labour. loose. 1623,32. The hand more instrumental to the mouth, LAER. Dread my lord, Your leave and favour to return to France; From whence though willingly I came to Denmark, To show my duty in your coronation; Yet now, I must confess, that duty done, My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France, And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon. KING. Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius? Poz. He hath, my lord, [wrung from me my slow leave, By laboursome petition; and, at last, с KING. Take thy fair hour, Laertes! time be thine! And thy best graces spend it at thy will !a But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son, • The head is not more native, &c.] i. e. " the principal parts of the body are not more natural, instrumental, or necessary to each other, than is the throne natural to, and a machine acted upon and under the guidance of, your father." b Your leave and favour to return Bow to your gracious leave and pardon.] i. e. "the favour of your leave, the kind permission." Two substantives with a copulative being here, as is the frequent practise of our author, used for an adjective and substantive: an adjective sense is given to a substantive. See " Law and Heraldry," sc. 1. Horatio. And in a more compressed, in a short-hand, though very intelligible, style the same idea is conveyed in Ant. & Cl. II. 6. Oct. "Whereon, I begg'd "His pardon for return." give me grace. Ib. III. 2. Th. Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent] i. e. earnest and importunate suit, I gave my full and final, though hardly obtained and reluctant, consent." d Take thy fair hour! time be thine ! And thy best graces spend it at thy will!] i. e. " catch the auspicious moment! and may the exercise of thy fairest virtues fill up those its hours, that are wholly at your command!" e But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son] See " Capulet." Rom. & Jul. I. 5. Cap. my cousin HAM. A little more than kin, and less than kind,(39) [Aside. KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAM. Not so, my lord, I am too much i'the sun.(40) QUEEN. Good Hamlet, cast thy nightly* colour nighted. off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not, for ever, with thy vailed lids," Seek for thy noble father in the dust: 4tos. Thou know'st, 'tis common; all that lives must + So 4tos. die, Passing through nature to eternity. HAM. Ay, madam, it is common. If it be, Why seems it so particular with thee? HAM. Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, a d nightly colour] The quartos read nighted: and in Lear, IV. 5, Regan speaks of the "nighted life," of " the dark and blinded Gloster." b vailed lids] i. e. cast down. See M. of V. I. 1. Salar. & L. L. L. V. 2. Boyet. Ay, madam, it is common] Similar examples of frailty, connected with such an event, are the things or occurrences, that, he would have it inferred, were common. d trappings] Trappings are furnishings,' as in Lear, III. 1. Kent. and 1623. live. 1632. ↑ shapes. 4tos. To give these mourning duties to your father: To do obsequious sorrow: But to perséver Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: • That father lost, lost his] i. e. " that lost father (of your father, i. e. your grandfather) or father so lost, lost his." b do obsequious sorrow] i. e. " follow with becoming and ceremonious observance the memory of the deceased." See III. H. VI. II. 5. Father. & M. W. of W. IV. 2. Falst. We have "Shed obsequious tears upon his trunk." Tit. Andr. V. 3. Luc. c obstinate condolement] i. e. ceaseless and unremitted ex pression of grief. d incorrect to heaven] i. e. " contumacious towards." as common "ad As any the most vulgar thing to sense] To sense is as dressed to sense; in every hour's occurrence offering itself to our observation and feelings." "Most sure and vulgar." Lear, IV. 6. Gent. funprevailing] i. e. fruitless, unprofitable, or more directly rendered, unavailing. Such is Dryden's use of the word: "He may often prevail himself of the same advantages in English." Essay on dramatic Poetry. "Prevail yourself of what occasion gives." Abs. & Achit. This use of the word seems to have been borrowed immediately from the French ' se prévaloir.' a You are the most immediate to our throne; Than that which dearest father bears his son, QUEEN. Let not thy mother lose her prayers, I pray thee, stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. [Exeunt King, Queen, Lords, &c. POLONIUS, HAM. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon (47) 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! Seems to me all the uses of this world! Fye on't! O fye! 'tis an unweeded garden, toward. 4tos. + seem. 4tos. So 4tos. fye, fye. That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, 1623, 32. a immediate] In Lear, IV. 3. Reg. he uses immediately for union the most direct and scarce divisible. b bend you] i. e. dispose, incline. Sits smiling to my heart] i. e. gladdens to is at. d in grace whereof] i. e. respectful regard or honour. To grace which, would here be the prose reading. e merely] i. e. wholly. See Temp. I. 1. Anton. с |