Ham. Who I?
Ophe. I my Lord.[8]
Ham. Oh God, your onely Iigge-maker[9]: what should a man do, but be merrie. For looke you how cheerefully my Mother lookes, and my Father dyed within's two Houres.
[Sidenote: 65] Ophe. Nay, 'tis twice two moneths, my Lord.[10]
Ham. So long? Nay then let the Diuel weare [Sidenote: 32] blacke, for Ile haue a suite of Sables.[11] Oh Heauens! dye two moneths ago, and not forgotten yet?[12] Then there's hope, a great mans Memorie, may out-liue his life halfe a yeare: But byrlady [Sidenote: ber Lady a] he must builde Churches then: or else shall he [Sidenote: shall a]
[Footnote 1: 'And ' not in Q.]
[Footnote 2: Emphasis on there. 'There' is not in 1st Q. Hamlet means it was a desecration of the Capitol.]
[Footnote 3: He cannot be familiar with his mother, so avoids her—will not sit by her, cannot, indeed, bear to be near her. But he loves and hopes in Ophelia still.]
[Footnote 4: '—Did I not tell you so?']
[Footnote 5: This speech and the next are not in the Q., but are shadowed in the 1st Q.]