[178]: Toutes ces anecdotes sont des traditions, et partant plus ou moins douteuses; mais les autres faits sont authentiques.
[179]: 1589. Termes d'un document conservé. Il est nommé avec Burbadge et Greene.
Alas; 'tis true, I have gone here and there,
And made myself a motley to the view,
Gor'd mine own thoughts; sold cheap what is most dear.
[181]: Sonnets 91 et 111. Hamlet, III, scène ii. Plusieurs des paroles d'Hamlet sont moins bien placées dans la bouche d'un prince que dans celle de l'auteur. Comparez le sonnet: Tired with all these; etc.
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my out-cast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope;
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd...,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in those thoughts myself almost despising.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?