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3.3- ADDITIONAL NOTES 305

88-95. Up, sword.. .it goes Travers aptly quotes
1.2.152: 'Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven.'

3-4-
9-10. thou hast.. .you have The change is significant
(Adams, p. 278).
42-4. takes off... blister there i.e. her act has
destroyed his innocent love for Oph., v. What happens
in Hamlet, p. 101.
49-51. And this.. .the act For a criticism of both the
reading and the interpretation here v. rev. by W. W.
Greg in M.L.R. xxx. 85.
53. upon this...and on this The picture of this
scene in Rowe's ed. of 1709 shows half-length portraits
on the wall; cf. add. note 2. 2. 159 S.D. And Stow
{Annals, p. 1436) speaks of a great chamber in the palace
at Elsinore 'hanged with Tapistary of fresh colourd
silke without gold, wherein all the Danish kings are
exprestin antique habits, according to their several times,
with their armes and inscriptions, conteining all their
conquests and victories.' But cf. Hazelton Spencer,
'How Sh. staged his plays', Johns Hopkins Alumini
Magazine, xx, 205-21.
67. moor Cf. 'with a face like Vulcan,' which Q1
reads at the corresponding passage.
102. S.D. The picture in Rowe (v. add. note 1. 53)
shows the Ghost in armour and with truncheon.
135. in his habit as he lived Cf. Lavater, p. 69, 'as
he was wonte when he lived'.
4.4.
18. a little patch of ground The following sentences
from Camden's Elizabeth, describing the siege of
Ostend, 1601, come close to Sh.'s words here and in
11. 50-65 below:
There was not in our age any seige and defence maintained
with greater slaughter of men, nor continued longer.... For