[Footnote 8: 'must, you will grant.']

[Footnote 9: Shakspere may here be playing with a false derivation, as I was myself when the true was pointed out to me—fancying abominable derived from ab and homo. If so, then he means by the phrase: 'they imitated humanity so from the nature of man, so inhumanly.']

[Footnote 10: tolerably.]

[Footnote 11: 'Sir' not in Q.]

[Footnote 12: Shakspere must have himself suffered from such clowns:
Coleridge thinks some of their gag has crept into his print.]

[Footnote 13: Here follow in the 1st Q. several specimens of such a clown's foolish jests and behaviour.]

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Enter Polonius, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne.[1]
[Sidenote: Guyldensterne, & Rosencraus.]

How now my Lord,
Will the King heare this peece of Worke?

Pol. And the Queene too, and that presently.[2]