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308 CORRECTIONS AND 4-7-
83-9. but this gallant.. .he did Cf. Lover's Com-
plaint, 11. 106-12:
Well could he ride, and often men would say
"That horse his mettle from his rider takes:
Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,
What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop
he makes!"
And controversy hence a question takes,
Whether the horse by him became his deed,
Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.
It is possible that both passages refer to the same horse-
man, viz. Sh.'s patron.
149. jit us to our shape v. G. (add.)'shape.' Johnson
interprets: 'enable us to assume proper characters and
to act our part.'
5.1.
252. Hamlet the Dane Adams, p. 319, also notes this.
S.D. Cf. from A Funerall Elegye on ye Death of
the famous Actor Richard Burbedg, 1618 (cited C. M.
Ingleby, Shakespeare, the Man and his Book, ii. 169, and
E. Nungezer, A Dictionary of Actors, 74):
Oft haue I seene him leap into the Graue,
Suiting the person which he seem'd to haue
Of a sadd Louer, with soe true an Eye
That theer I would haue sworne he meant to dye—

a vivid memory of how Burbage acted at this point.
5.2.
10-11. There's a divinity.. .we will Mr J. P.
Malleson writes (privately):
Years ago a country labourer astonished my father by
saying as he sharpened stakes for fixing hurdles in the ground:
'My mate roughhews them and I shape their ends.'
Perhaps the image came to Sh. from the passage in
Saxo or Belleforest which describes Amleth shaping the
ends of little staves in the fire, v. Gollancz, Sources of
Hamlet, pp. 103-105, 199;