Yet Chapman, in whom alone I have found it, may have adopted it from one of the 4tos of this play. See on Rom. and Jul. iii. 3.
"I do not fear it; I have seen you both.—
But since he's better'd, we have therefore odds."
If he (i.e. Laertes) was bettered, in the ordinary sense of the word, how could the odds lie against him? You're would give better sense than 'he's'; but it does not satisfy me. A line has evidently been lost, and the latter part may be addressed to the Queen. The lost line may have been something like this: "'Tis true he did neglect his exercises." Hamlet had said (ii. 2) he had "foregone all custom of exercises." In my Edition I have made an Aside here to the Queen, who may have made a sign of dissent; but a speech of the Queen's to the same effect may have been what is lost.
"Come.—Another hit.—What say you?
[A touch a touch] I do confess."
With the 4tos I omit the bracketed words, as needless to the sense and injurious to the measure.