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i.a. NOTES 159
160. nor(F) Q(+Camb.)'or*. countenance seeG.
164. until (Y) Q (+Camb.) 'till'.
166. with i.e. even with; see G. 'mischief, 'allay*.
169-74. /...brother? <F. Q om.
175. best. F ' best,'; Q (+Camb.)' best, goe arm'd,\
Q's 'goe arm'd' is recollected from its omitted passage,
11. 169-74. See 1949 ed. p. 133.
176. toward (?) Q (+Camb.) 'towards*.
178. image and horror=&n exact picture of the horror.
Hendiadys cf. G. 'image' and 5.3. 264.
181. S.D. F'Exit.'(at L180).
i82ff. Cf. Oth. 1. 3. 390 ff. The same cynicism.
187. fashion fit adapt to my ends. S.D. Q, F
'Exit.'.
'An interval of something less than a fortnight' takes
place between sc. 2 and sc. 3; cf. 1.4. 296, 'Within a
fortnight' [Daniel, Time-Jnal.].

S.D. Loc. (Cap.) Entry (Coll.) F 'Enter Gonerill
and Steward.' Q 'Enter Gonorill and Gentleman.*
For the name 'Oswald' see p. 144. Sh. does not invent
it till Gon. has to call for him. Later references suggest
he is foppishly dressed (see 2. 2. 14-17, 52-5), e.g. in
Alb.'s cast-off garments.
3,12,22. sp.-hdgs. F 'Ste.', Q 'Gent.*.
4. night (Q) F 'night,'. Many take 'By day and
night' as an oath (cf. H. Fill, 1. 2. 213). But 'Every
hour' suggests the ordinary sense of'By day and night'
[W.A.W.].
5. crime=offence. Not the strong modern sense.
11. S.D. (<Cap. 'Horns within.').
15. my (F) Q 'our'.
17-21. <Q. F om.—the kind of gnomic passage
that tempted a prompter to cut.