[2275] there is] Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. there's a Ff. there is a Q6.

[2276] now] Ff. om. Qq.

[2277] will] well Q2 Q3.

[2278] the readiness ... Let be.] See note ([XXXII]).

[2279] Enter ...] Ff, substantially. A table prepard, Trumpets, Drums and officers with Cushions, King, Queene, and all the state, Foiles, daggers, and Laertes. Qq.

Osric and other Attendants....] Osrick with other Attendants.... Theobald. with other Attendants.... Ff.

[2280] [The King ...] Gives him the hand of Laertes. Hanmer. King puts the hand of Laertes into the hand of Hamlet. Johnson. om. Qq Ff.

[2281] I've] Ff. I have Qq.

[2282] But ... knows,] As in Ff. One line in Qq. S. Walker would end lines 213, 214, pardon't ... knows.

[2283] This ... done] Three lines, ending heard ... distraction ... done, in Rowe.