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2.1. NOTES 167

44. closes.. .consequence = comes to grips with you
as follows.
48-50. And then.-.. I leave Malone and mod. edd.
print as prose; but the lines, as Q 2 gives them, will pass
as Polonian verse.
(
60. takes Fi) Q2 'take' MSH.-p. 236.
carp With a quibble on' carp '=talk, discourse, v. G.
Dowden (4th ed.) quotes Chapman's For stay in Com-
1
petence: 'caught with carps of sophistry. The carp is
a difficult fish to land. v. Sh. Eng. ii. 374.
62. windlasses v. G.
63. directions, i.e. how to proceed.
66. God bye ye Q2 'God buy e' Fi 'God buy
y
you'—the regular Shakespearian forms, for which F4
reads 'God b'w' you' and most mod. edd. 'God be wi'
you.' I print'God bye'throughout.
68. in yourself i.e. by personal observation, as well
as by hearsay.
75. with his doublet all unbraced etc. Edd. quote
Rosalind's list of the marks of a man in love:

A lean cheek...a blue eye and sunken...an unques-
tionable spirit...a beard neglected....Then your hose
should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve
unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you
demonstrating a careless desolation (A.T.L. 3. 2. 365-72).
But cf. note 2. 2. 159 S.D. ('disorderly attired'). For
'no hat upon his head' v. note 5. 2. 96—7.
80. As if.. .out of hell v. Introd. p. Ixii.
103. sorry— The dash is Capell's. Pol. continues
with his sentence at 1. 108.
115-16. being kept close... utter love i .e. if we con-
ceal it we may cause more grief (by Ham.'s 'fordoing'
himself; cf. 1. 101) than the displeasure we may incur
by suggesting an alliance between a prince of the blood
royal and a councillor's daughter.