[Footnote 6: Emphasis on did, as antithetic to forgery: 'my inventing came short of his doing.']
[Footnote 7: 'it would be a sight indeed to see you matched with an equal.' The king would strengthen Laertes' confidence in his proficiency.]
[Footnote 8: 'made him so spiteful by stirring up his habitual envy.']
[Footnote 9: All invention.]
[Footnote 10: Here should be a dash: the king pauses. He is approaching dangerous ground—is about to propose a thing abominable, and therefore to the influence of flattered vanity and roused emulation, would add the fiercest heat of stimulated love and hatred—to which end he proceeds to cast doubt on the quality of Laertes' love for his father.]
[Footnote 11: the picture.]
[Footnote 12: 'through habit.']
[Footnote 13: French escrimeurs: fencers.]
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And that I see in passages of proofe,[1]
Time qualifies the sparke and fire of it:[2]
[A]
Hamlet comes backe: what would you vndertake,
To show your selfe your Fathers sonne indeed,
[Sidenote: selfe indeede your fathers sonne]
More then in words?