King. 'Tis sweet and commendable
In your Nature Hamlet,
To giue these mourning duties to your Father:[11]
But you must know, your Father lost a Father,
That Father lost, lost his, and the Suruiuer bound
In filiall Obligation, for some terme
To do obsequious[12] Sorrow. But to perseuer
In obstinate Condolement, is a course
[Footnote 1: An aside. Hamlet's first utterance is of dislike to his uncle. He is more than kin through his unwelcome marriage—less than kind by the difference in their natures. To be kind is to behave as one kinned or related. But the word here is the noun, and means nature, or sort by birth.]
[Footnote 2: A word-play may be here intended between sun and son: a little more than kin—too much i' th' Son. So George Herbert:
For when he sees my ways, I die;
But I have got his Son, and he hath none;
and Dr. Donne:
at my death thy Son Shall shine, as he shines now and heretofore.]
[Footnote 3: 'Wintred garments'—As You Like It, iii. 2.]
[Footnote 4: He is the only one who has not for the wedding put off his mourning.]
[Footnote 5: lowered, or cast down: Fr. avaler, to lower.]
[Footnote 6: 'Plainly you treat it as a common matter—a thing of no significance!' I is constantly used for ay, yes.]