1. 47. Canoniz'd. since burial, like the bones of a canonized person.' It is the thought of the late king's worth, rather than of his funeral, that brings out the word.

'Sainted'; 'held in reverence, at and

In death. 'In the coffin, and the cerecloth wrappings of the dead'; but it is clear, from "cerements" in the next line, that the wrappings are chiefly meant. "Hearsed" is 'coffined.'

1. 49. Inurn'd. Loosely for 'interred,' which the quartos read.

1. 53. Glimpses of the moon. 'What the moon gets glimpses of.' Clouds, then, in Shakespeare's conception of this scene, fitfully obscure the moon.

1. 64. What should be the fear? 'What are you forced, in

your view, to consider dangerous?'

1. 65. Fee. 'Value,' 'worth.'

1. 73. Deprive. 'Take away.'

Your sovereignty of reason.

powers, of your reason.'

'The sovereignty, controlling

1. 75. Toys of desperation. Desperate fancies, promptings.'

1. 83. Nemean. Belonging to Nemea, in Argolis'; epithet of the lion which Hercules, in the execution of his first labor, slew.

Nerve. Sinew.' "

1. 85. Lets. Hinders.' Cf. "without let or hindrance."

1. 89. Have. 'Let us.'

1. 91. It. Refers back to "issue."

SCENE V

1. 3. Flames. That is, of purgatory; where the work of cleansing was intermitted (cf. 1. 11) at night.

1. 11. Fast. Spirits in hell and purgatory were thought of as capable of thirst and hunger, much as in the life of the body.

1. 19. An. The original form of on,' and used in Middle English interchangeably with it, as also with à or o.

เ

1. 20. Porpentine. Porcupine'; used seven times by Shakespeare in this form.

1. 21. Eternal blazon. 'Blazoning of the mysteries of the hereafter.'

1. 32. Shouldst be. Wouldst have to be.'

1. 33. Lethe wharf.

Banks of Lethe'; adjective for pos

sessive, like Vergil's "Priameia virgo."

1. 37. Process. 'Report'; which, given out (1. 35) from court, was of course official.

11. 50, 51. Decline upon. 'Sink to the level of.'

1. 52. To. 'In comparison with.' Cf. ii., 139 above.

1. 53. Virtue. Introduced as the subject of thought, but without construction, like the anticipative noun in French. Cf. "votre libraire, a-t-il les livres " ?

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1. 58. Soft. Hold,'' be silent'; not to be taken as an adjective with omitted be,' but as an actual imperative. Cf. (III., i., 88).

"soft you now
1. 61. Secure.
ing of the word.

1. 62. Hebenon.

'Unguarded,' 'careless'; the active mean

Perhaps henbane.'

Coagulate.'

'Acid.'

1. 71. Bark'd about. 'Came about me as bark encloses trees.'

1. 72. Lazar-like. 'Like Lazarus,' 'like a leper.'

1. 75. Dispatch'd. 'Had my finish with.'

1. 76. Blossoms of my sin. 'Sins not yet brought to action, but existing only in unsuspected tendencies.' The more natural idea of sins in the stage of enjoyment before their consequences are reached' seems inconsistent with the purity and uprightness of the late King's character.

1. 77. Unhousel'd. 'Not having received the housel, or eucharist.'

Disappointed. 'Unappointed,' 'unprepared.'

Unanel'd. 'Without having extreme unction administered.'

1. 80. This line, in the opinion of several commentators, may have been given originally to Hamlet. But Hamlet seems in no mood to interrupt the Ghost.

1. 83. Luxury. 'Lewdness.'

1. 88. Fare thee well. See i., 40 above.

1. 89. Matin. The French matin, 'morning.'

1. 97. Distracted globe. This head, or brain, of mine, distracted by the revelations made.' The sense of 'world,' which some critics approve, does not seem to justify "distracted."

1. 107. Tables. 'Memorandum tablets'; called later (II., ii., 136), 'table-book,' because made of ivory sheets or leaves, held together by a clasp.

1. 110. Word. 'Watchword.'

1. 116. Come, bird. The recall of a falconer to his hawk.

1. 137. Offence. That is, of the new King's crime.

1. 147. Upon my sword. Swords were often provided with a cross, either stamped upon the hilt or formed by a transverse bar serving as a guard. To supply the place of a cross or crucifix in administering oaths, swords with such hilts were sometimes used.

1. 150. True-penny. 'True-blue'; the irreverence of this, and "boy," being intended to mislead concerning the real character of the Ghost.

1. 165. As a stranger. With no attempting to be familiar.'

1. 172. Antic. 'Odd'; 'disposition to be peculiar.'

1. 176. An if. Really a doubled 'if,' with the force of one. Cf. or ere (ii., 147).

1. 180. Most. 'Greatest'; the old sense of the word.

1. 185. Friending. 'Friendliness.'

1. 186. Lack. 'Be wanting.'

1. 190. Go together. That is, 'without attention to precedence.'

ACT II. SCENE I

1. 3. Shall. 'Will.'

1. 5. Of.

'Concerning.'

1. 7. Inquire me. 'Oblige me by inquiring,' though not so definite or strong; a good case of the "ethical dative.”