_King._ Take thy faire houre _Laertes_, time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will:
But now my Cosin _Hamlet_, and my Sonne?

[Footnote A: _In the Quarto_:--

_Polo._ Hath[5] my Lord wroung from me my slowe leaue
By laboursome petition, and at last
Vpon his will I seald my hard consent,[6]
I doe beseech you giue him leaue to goe.]

[Footnote 1: _Not in Q._]

[Footnote 2: 'Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet
speaking, I will hear.'--_Isaiah_, lxv. 24.]

[Footnote 3: The villain king courts his courtiers.]

[Footnote 4: He had been educated there. Compare 23. But it would seem
rather to the court than the university he desired to return. See his
father's instructions, 38.]

[Footnote 5: _H'ath_--a contraction for _He hath_.]

[Footnote 6: A play upon the act of sealing a will with wax.]

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_Ham._ A little more then kin, and lesse then kinde.[1]