This second act, the third act, and a part always given to the fourth, but which really belongs to the third, occupy in all only one day.
[Footnote 1: Here follows in 1st Q.
confest a murder
Committed long before.
This spirit that I haue seene may be the Diuell,
And out of my weakenesse and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such men,
Doth seeke to damne me, I will haue sounder proofes,
The play's the thing, &c.]
[Footnote 2:
'Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;' &c.
Macbeth, iii. 4.]
[Footnote 3: In the 1st Q. Hamlet, speaking to Horatio (l 37), says,
And if he doe not bleach, and change at that,—
Bleach is radically the same word as blench:—to bleach, to blanch, to blench—to grow white.]
[Footnote 4: Emphasis on May, as resuming previous doubtful thought and suspicion.]