[Footnote 4: 'cursed spight'—not merely that he had been born to do hangman's work, but that he should have been born at all—of a mother whose crime against his father had brought upon him the wretched necessity which must proclaim her ignominy. Let the student do his best to realize the condition of Hamlet's heart and mind in relation to his mother.]
[Footnote: 5 This first act occupies part of a night, a day, and part of the next night.]
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ACTUS SECUNDUS.[1]
Enter Polonius, and Reynoldo.
[Sidenote: Enter old Polonius, with his man, or two.]
Polon. Giue him his money, and these notes Reynoldo.[2]
[Sidenote: this money]
Reynol. I will my Lord.
Polon. You shall doe maruels wisely: good Reynoldo,
[Sidenote: meruiles]
Before you visite him you make inquiry
[Sidenote: him, to make inquire]
Of his behauiour.[3]
Reynol. My Lord, I did intend it.
Polon. Marry, well said;
Very well said. Looke you Sir,
Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;
And how, and who; what meanes; and where they keepe:
What company, at what expence: and finding
By this encompassement and drift of question,
That they doe know my sonne: Come you more neerer[4]
Then your particular demands will touch it,
Take you as 'twere some distant knowledge of him,
And thus I know his father and his friends, [Sidenote: As thus]
And in part him. Doe you marke this Reynoldo?