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Which are to claime,[1] my vantage doth [Sidenote: Which now to clame]
Inuite me,
Hor. Of that I shall haue alwayes[2] cause to speake,
[Sidenote: haue also cause[3]
And from his mouth
[Sidenote: 272] Whose voyce will draw on more:[3]
[Sidenote: drawe no more,]
But let this same be presently perform'd,
Euen whiles mens mindes are wilde, [Sidenote: while]
Lest more mischance
On plots, and errors happen.[4]
For. Let foure Captaines
Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,
For he was likely, had he beene put on[5]
To haue prou'd most royally:[6] [Sidenote: royall;]
And for his passage,[7]
The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre[8] [Sidenote: right of]
Speake[9] lowdly for him.
Take vp the body; Such a sight as this [Sidenote: bodies,]
Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.
Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.[10]
Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale [Sidenote: Exeunt.] of Ordenance are shot off.
FINIS.
[Footnote 1: 'which must now be claimed'—except the Quarto be right here also.]
[Footnote 2: The Quarto surely is right here.]
[Footnote 3: —Hamlet's mouth. The message he entrusted to Horatio for Fortinbras, giving his voice, or vote, for him, was sure to 'draw on more' voices.]
[Footnote 4: 'lest more mischance happen in like manner, through plots and mistakes.']