Powres the poyson in his eares.[10]
Ham. He poysons him i'th Garden for's estate: [Sidenote: A poysons | for his]
[Footnote 1: —said, perhaps, to Polonius. Is there a lapse here in the king's self-possession? or is this speech only an outcome of its completeness—a pretence of fearing the play may glance at the queen for marrying him?]
[Footnote 2: 'It is but jest; don't be afraid: there is no reality in it'—as one might say to a child seeing a play.]
[Footnote 3: Figuratively: from trope. In the 1st Q. the passage stands thus:
Ham. Mouse-trap: mary how trapically: this play is
The image of a murder done in guyana,]
[Footnote 4: Here Hamlet endangers himself to force the king to self-betrayal.]
[Footnote 5: In Q. after next line.]
[Footnote 6: In a puppet-play, if she and her love were the puppets, he could supply the speeches.]
[Footnote 7: Is this a misprint for 'so you must take husbands'—for better and worse, namely? or is it a thrust at his mother—'So you mis-take husbands, going from the better to a worse'? In 1st Q.: 'So you must take your husband, begin.']