Guild. But with much forcing of his disposition.[4]
Rosin. Niggard of question, but of our demands Most free in his reply.[5]
Qu. Did you assay him to any pastime?
Rosin. Madam, it so fell out, that certaine Players
We ore-wrought on the way: of these we told him,
[Sidenote: ore-raught[6]
And there did seeme in him a kinde of ioy
To heare of it: They are about the Court, [Sidenote: are heere about]
And (as I thinke) they haue already order
This night to play before him.
Pol. 'Tis most true; And he beseech'd me to intreate your Majesties To heare, and see the matter.
King. With all my heart, and it doth much content me To heare him so inclin'd. Good Gentlemen,
[Footnote 1: This may be regarded as the commencement of the Third Act.]
[Footnote 2: The phrase seems to imply a doubt of the genuineness of the lunacy.]
[Footnote 3: Nominative pronoun omitted here.]
[Footnote 4: He has noted, without understanding them, the signs of
Hamlet's suspicion of themselves.]