[Footnote 18: 'That they have, out and away.' Steevens suggests that allusion is here made to the sign of the Globe Theatre—Hercules bearing the world for Atlas.]
[Footnote 19: amateur-plays.]
[Footnote 20: whimsical fashion.]
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forty, an hundred Ducates a peece, for his picture[1] [Sidenote: fortie, fifty, a hundred] in Little.[2] There is something in this more then [Sidenote: little, s'bloud there is] Naturall, if Philosophic could finde it out.
Flourish for tke Players.[3] [Sidenote: A Florish.]
Guil. There are the Players.
Ham. Gentlemen, you are welcom to Elsonower: your hands, come: The appurtenance of [Sidenote: come then, th'] Welcome, is Fashion and Ceremony. Let me [Sidenote: 260] comply with you in the Garbe,[4] lest my extent[5] to [Sidenote: in this garb: let me extent] the Players (which I tell you must shew fairely outward) should more appeare like entertainment[6] [Sidenote: outwards,] then yours.[7] You are welcome: but my Vnckle Father, and Aunt Mother are deceiu'd.
Guil. In what my deere Lord?
Ham. I am but mad North, North-West: when the Winde is Southerly, I know a Hawke from a Handsaw.[8]