Clowne sings.[8]
But Age with his stealing steps [Sidenote Clow. Song.] hath caught me in his clutch: [Sidenote: hath clawed me]
[Footnote 1: 'unyoke your team'—as having earned his rest.]
[Footnote 2: Not in Quarto.]
[Footnote 3: Whether this is the name of a place, or the name of an innkeeper, or is merely an inexplicable corruption—some take it for a stage-direction to yawn—I cannot tell. See Q. reading.
It is said to have been discovered that a foreigner named Johan sold ale next door to the Globe.]
[Footnote 4: Not in Quarto.]
[Footnote 5: A song ascribed to Lord Vaux is in this and the following stanzas made nonsense of.]
[Footnote 6: Note Hamlet's mood throughout what follows. He has entered the shadow of death.]
[Footnote 7: Property is what specially belongs to the individual; here it is his peculiar work, or personal calling: 'custom has made it with him an easy duty.']