Enter Rosincrance and Guildensterne.[14]
Ham. Oh, ha? Come some Musick.[15] Come the Recorders: [Sidenote: Ah ha,]
[Footnote 1: —in ill suppressed agitation.]
[Footnote 2: This speech is not in the Quarto.—Is the 'false fire' what we now call stage-fire?—'What! frighted at a mere play?']
[Footnote 3: The stage—the stage-stage, that is—alone is lighted. Does the king stagger out blindly, madly, shaking them from him? I think not—but as if he were taken suddenly ill.]
[Footnote 4: —singing—that he may hide his agitation, restrain himself, and be regarded as careless-mad, until all are safely gone.]
[Footnote 5: —his success with the play.]
[Footnote 6: 'Roses of Provins,' we are told—probably artificial.]
[Footnote 7: The meaning is very doubtful. But for the raz'd of the Quarto, I should suggest lac'd. Could it mean cut low?]
[Footnote 8: a share, as immediately below.]