[Sidenote: 126] Play. I hope we haue reform'd that indifferently[10] with vs, Sir.
Ham. O reforme it altogether. And let those that play your Clownes, speake no more then is set downe for them.[12] For there be of them, that will themselues laugh, to set on some quantitie of barren Spectators to laugh too, though in the meane time, some necessary Question of the Play be then to be considered:[12] that's Villanous, and shewes a most pittifull Ambition in the Fool that vses it.[13] Go make you readie. Exit Players
[Footnote 1: 'An imaginary God of the Mahometans, represented as a most violent character in the old Miracle-plays and Moralities.'—Sh. Lex.]
[Footnote 2: 'represented as a swaggering tyrant in the old dramatic performances.'—Sh. Lex.]
[Footnote 3: away from: inconsistent with.]
[Footnote 4: —that which is deserving of scorn.]
[Footnote 5: impression, as on wax. Some would persuade us that Shakspere's own plays do not do this; but such critics take the accidents or circumstances of a time for the body of it—the clothes for the person. Human nature is 'Nature,' however dressed.
There should be a comma after 'Age.']
[Footnote 6: 'laggingly represented'—A word belonging to time is substituted for a word belonging to space:—'this over-done, or inadequately effected'; 'this over-done, or under-done.']
[Footnote 7: 'and the judgment of such a one.' 'the which' seems equivalent to and—such.]