[17] Ibid.

[18] Some slip of the pen seems to have occurred in this confused line. The original Et male consultis pretium est: prudentia fallax—is sufficiently close to Shakspere's phrase.

[19] "O heaven! a beast that wants discourse of reason" (Act I, Scene 2.)

[20] Act II, Sc. 2.

[21] Act IV, Scene 2.

[22] Act IV, Scene 4.

[23] See Furniss's Variorum edition of Hamlet, in loc.

[24] B. I. Chap. 19; Edit. Firmin-Didot, vol. i, p. 68.

[25] B. II, Chap. 4; Ed. cited, p. 382.

[26] B. II. Chap. 12; Ibid, p. 459.