'to be overwise—to overreach ourselves' 'ambition, which o'erleaps itself,' —Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.]
[Footnote 2: Polonius is a man of faculty. His courtier-life, his self-seeking, his vanity, have made and make him the fool he is.]
[Footnote 3: He hopes now to get his daughter married to the prince.
We have here a curious instance of Shakspere's not unfrequently excessive condensation. Expanded, the clause would be like this: 'which, being kept close, might move more grief by the hiding of love, than to utter love might move hate:' the grief in the one case might be greater than the hate in the other would be. It verges on confusion, and may not be as Shakspere wrote it, though it is like his way.
1st Q.
Lets to the king, this madnesse may prooue,
Though wilde a while, yet more true to thy loue.]
[Footnote 4: Not in Quarto.]
[Footnote 5: Q. has not Cum alijs.]
[Footnote 6: 'Moreover that &c.': moreover is here used as a preposition, with the rest of the clause for its objective.]
[Footnote 7: Rosincrance and Guildensterne are, from the first and throughout, the creatures of the king.]