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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
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But I haue that Within, which passeth show; [Sidenote: passes]
These, but the Trappings, and the Suites of woe.

_King._ 'Tis sweet and commendable
In your Nature _Hamlet_,
To giue these mourning duties to your Father:[11]
But you must know, your Father lost a Father,
That Father lost, lost his, and the Suruiuer bound
In filiall Obligation, for some terme
To do obsequious[12] Sorrow. But to perseuer
In obstinate Condolement, is a course

[Footnote 1: An _aside_. Hamlet's first utterance is of dislike to his
uncle. He is more than _kin_ through his unwelcome marriage--less than
_kind_ by the difference in their natures. To be _kind_ is to behave as
one _kinned_ or related. But the word here is the noun, and means
_nature_, or sort by birth.]

[Footnote 2: A word-play may be here intended between _sun_ and _son_:
_a little more than kin--too much i' th' Son_. So George Herbert:

For when he sees my ways, I die;
But I have got his _Son_, and he hath none;

and Dr. Donne:

at my death thy Son
Shall shine, as he shines now and heretofore.]

[Footnote 3: 'Wintred garments'--_As You Like It_, iii. 2.]
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