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3.2. ADDITIONA L NOTES 3°3

Queen had been visibly disturbed by the references to
second marriages in the interlude, which I think very
likely.
wince Greg objects (M.L.R. xxx. 86) that the dis-
tinction between 'wince' and 'winch' (Q2, Fi) is
'one of linguistic form and not merely of spelling, and
that not even a modernising editor has the right to
interfere.' Reference to N.E.D. 'wince' la and
'winch' 2 b shows that both forms were used indifferently
of the 'galled jade' jn Sh.'s day.
243. nephew to the king Trench (p. 166, n. 2)
anticipates my explanation here to the extent of suggest-
ing that Ros. and Guil. may identify Lucianus with
Ham. For second thoughts on Lucianus' costume v.
What happens in Hamlet, p. 171 n.
293-94. For if.. .perdy This is not 'another
ballad-snatch' but a parody (cf. note 253-54 above) of
the Span. Trag. iv. i. 196-97:
And if the world like not this Tragedie,
Hard is the hap of olde Hieronimo.
'Just before, Hamlet has quoted two stanzas, probably
from old ballads, and has clearly misquoted the last
line of the second stanza... after which Horatio says
"You might have rhymed." So Hamlet reverses the
process of misquotation and rhymes where Kyd had
not rhymed' (A. Clutton-Brock, Shakespeare's Hamlet,
1922, p. 17).
306-308. for me.. .more choler Purgation for bile
or choler might be by bleeding (cf. Ric. II, 1.1,153)—
the readiest way to cure Claudius.
316. breed v. G. (add.).
l
358. / know no touch of it — l cannot play a note
on it' (Christopher Welch, v. note 1. 361, below). Cf.
'touch' G. (add.).
360-74. Govern.. .play upon me Cf. North's
Plutarch, Life of Pericles (Tudor Translations, ii. 22):
For as it falleth out commonly unto people that enjoye