[Footnote 10: Point thus: 'Mark it.—You say right, sir; &c.' He takes up a speech that means nothing, and might mean anything, to turn aside the suspicion their whispering might suggest to Polonius that they had been talking about him—so better to lay his trap for him.]
[Footnote 11: He mentions the actor to lead Polonius so that his prophecy of him shall come true.]
[Footnote 12: An interjection of mockery: he had made a fool of him.]
[Footnote 13: Polonius thinks he is refusing to believe him.]
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Polon. The best Actors in the world, either for
Tragedie, Comedie, Historic, Pastorall: Pastoricall-
Comicall-Historicall-Pastorall: [1] Tragicall-Historicall:
Tragicall-Comicall—Historicall-Pastorall[1]:
Scene indiuible,[2] or Poem vnlimited.[3] Seneca cannot
[Sidenote: scene indeuidible,[2]
be too heauy, nor Plautus too light, for the law of
Writ, and the Liberty. These are the onely men.[4]
Ham. O Iephta Iudge of Israel, what a Treasure had'st thou?
Pol. What a Treasure had he, my Lord?[5]
Ham. Why one faire Daughter, and no more,[6] The which he loued passing well.[6]
[Sidenote: 86] Pol. Still on my Daughter.