For women feare too much, euen as they loue,]
[Footnote B: Here in the Quarto:—
Where loue is great, the litlest doubts are feare,
Where little feares grow great, great loue growes there.]
[Footnote 1: Enter not in Q.]
[Footnote 2: Commonly posy: a little sentence engraved inside a ring—perhaps originally a tiny couplet, therefore poesy, 1st Q., 'a poesie for a ring?']
[Footnote 3: Emphasis on ''Tis.']
[Footnote 4: Very little blank verse of any kind was written before Shakspere's; the usual form of dramatic verse was long, irregular, rimed lines: the Poet here uses the heroic couplet, which gives a resemblance to the older plays by its rimes, while also by its stately and monotonous movement the play-play is differenced from the play into which it is introduced, and caused to look intrinsically like a play in relation to the rest of the play of which it is part. In other words, it stands off from the surrounding play, slightly elevated both by form and formality. 103.]
[Footnote 5: 1st Q.
Duke. Full fortie yeares are past, their date is gone,
Since happy time ioyn'd both our hearts as one:
And now the blood that fill'd my youthfull veines,
Ruunes weakely in their pipes, and all the straines
Of musicke, which whilome pleasde mine eare,
Is now a burthen that Age cannot beare:
And therefore sweete Nature must pay his due,
To heauen must I, and leaue the earth with you.]
[Footnote 6: Here Hamlet gives the time his father and mother had been married, and Shakspere points at Hamlet's age. 234. The Poet takes pains to show his hero's years.]