I prythee stay with vs, go not to Wittenberg. [Sidenote: pray thee]

_Ham._ I shall in all my best
Obey you Madam.[4]

_King._ Why 'tis a louing, and a faire Reply,
Be as our selfe in Denmarke. Madam come,
This gentle and vnforc'd accord of _Hamlet_[5]
Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof,
No iocond health that Denmarke drinkes to day,
[Sidenote: 44] But the great Cannon to the Clowds shall tell,

[Footnote 1: _Corpse_.]

[Footnote 2: --seeking to propitiate him with the hope that his
succession had been but postponed by his uncle's election.]

[Footnote 3: Note that Hamlet was educated in Germany--at Wittenberg,
the university where in 1508 Luther was appointed professor of
Philosophy. Compare 19. There was love of study as well as disgust with
home in his desire to return to _Schoole_: this from what we know of him
afterwards.]

[Footnote 4: Emphasis on _obey_. A light on the character of Hamlet.]

[Footnote 5: He takes it, or pretends to take it, for far more than it
was. He desires friendly relations with Hamlet.]

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