1st Q.
Ham. Vpon my loue I charge thee let it goe,
O fie Horatio, and if thou shouldst die,
What a scandale wouldst thou leaue behinde?
What tongue should tell the story of our deaths,
If not from thee?]
[Footnote 5: Not in Q.]
[Footnote 6: The frame is closing round the picture. 9.]
[Footnote 7: Shakspere more than once or twice makes the dying prophesy.]
[Footnote 8: His last thought is for his country; his last effort at utterance goes to prevent a disputed succession.]
[Footnote 9: 'greater and less'—as in the psalm,
'The Lord preserves all, more and less,
That bear to him a loving heart.']
[Footnote 10: led to the necessity.]
[Footnote 11: These interjections are not in the Quarto.]