Ham. Do you see that Clowd? that's almost in [Sidenote: yonder clowd] shape like a Camell. [Sidenote: shape of a]
Polon. By'th'Misse, and it's like a Camell [Sidenote: masse and tis,] indeed.
Ham. Me thinkes it is like a Weazell.
Polon. It is back'd like a Weazell.
Ham. Or like a Whale?[3]
Polon. Verie like a Whale.[4]
Ham. Then will I come to my Mother, by and by: [Sidenote: I will] [Sidenote: 60, 136, 178] They foole me to the top of my bent.[5] I will come by and by.
[Footnote 1: —with allusion to the frets or stop-marks of a stringed instrument.]
[Footnote 2: —to Polonius.]
[Footnote 3: There is nothing insanely arbitrary in these suggestions of likeness; a cloud might very well be like every one of the three; the camel has a hump, the weasel humps himself, and the whale is a hump.]