Kin. 'Tis Hamlets Character, naked and in a Postscript here he sayes alone:[4] Can you aduise [Sidenote: deuise me?] me?[5]
Laer. I'm lost in it my Lord; but let him come, [Sidenote: I am]
It warmes the very sicknesse in my heart,
That I shall liue and tell him to his teeth; [Sidenote: That I liue and]
Thus diddest thou. [Sidenote: didst]
Kin. If it be so Laertes, as how should it be so:[6] How otherwise will you be rul'd by me?
Laer. If so[7] you'l not o'rerule me to a peace.
[Sidenote: I my Lord, so you will not]
Kin. To thine owne peace: if he be now return'd,
[Sidenote: 195] As checking[8] at his Voyage, and that he meanes
[Sidenote: As the King[8] at his]
No more to vndertake it; I will worke him
To an exployt now ripe in my Deuice, [Sidenote: deuise,]
Vnder the which he shall not choose but fall;
And for his death no winde of blame shall breath,
[Sidenote: 221] But euen his Mother shall vncharge the practice,[9]
And call it accident: [A] Some two Monthes hence[10]
[Sidenote: two months since]
Here was a Gentleman of Normandy,
I'ue seene my selfe, and seru'd against the French, [Sidenote: I haue]
[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto:—
Laer. My Lord I will be rul'd, The rather if you could deuise it so That I might be the organ.
King. It falls right,
You haue beene talkt of since your trauaile[11] much,
And that in Hamlets hearing, for a qualitie
Wherein they say you shine, your summe of parts[12]
Did not together plucke such enuie from him
As did that one, and that in my regard
Of the vnworthiest siedge.[13]
Laer. What part is that my Lord?
King. A very ribaud[14] in the cap of youth,
Yet needfull to, for youth no lesse becomes[15]
The light and carelesse liuery that it weares
Then setled age, his sables, and his weedes[16]
Importing health[17] and grauenes;]