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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