The first working of the jealous fit;—
Too hot, too hot:—
The morbid tendency of Leontes to lay hold of the merest trifles, and his grossness immediately afterwards—
Padling palms and pinching fingers:—
followed by his strange loss of self-control in his dialogue with the little boy.
Act iii. sc. 2. Paulina's speech:
That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant,
And damnable ingrateful.—
Theobald reads 'soul.'
I think the original word is Shakspeare's.
1. My ear feels it to be Shakspearian;