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202 N O T E S 3.a.

147-49. For us.. .patiently The jingling posy-
prologue may be taken as another of the Players' dramatic
gimcracks.
150. the posy of a ring Cf. M. of V. 5. I. 149-50
'whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry.'
152. As woman's love Ham. himself prologues lie
play.
153-58. Full thirty times etc. The repeated in-
sistence upon 'thirty' years of married life agrees with
Ham.'s age given 5. I. 143-57 (note).
165. For women.. .love F i and many edd. omit.
MSH. p. 27. There is no rhyme to 'love.'
167. In neither aught Fi) Q2 'Eyther none, in
(
neither ought.' The first two words in Q2 prob.
represent a false start by Sh. MSH. p. 27. Capell ex-
plains: 'They either feel none of these passions, or feel
them both in extremity.'
170-71. Where love.. .grows there F i omits these
lines, which merely repeat the sense of 1.167. It is clear
that Sh. wrote this Gonzago play hastily, leaving several
tangles for the prompter to unravel.
180. That's wormwood, wormwood. Qz 'That's
wormwood,' F i 'Wormwood, Wormwood,' Qx
'O wormewood, wormewood!' MSH. p. 302.
Qz prints this and the interruption at 1. 223 in the
margin, which suggests that they may have been added
after the Gonzago play had been composed.
191-92. Most necessary...is debt. 'Our resolves
are debts to ourselves; why embarrass ourselves with
inconvenient payments?' (Dowden).
203. The great man.. .flies 'Had Sh. in mind the
fall of the great Essex and his treatment by Bacon?'
(Verity).
217-18. To desperation.. .scope Two more super-
fluous lines omitted by F i ; cf. note 11. 170-71. For
'cheere' v. G.
231-32. Have you... offence in't? Cf. note 1. 133