Polonius.] Enter Polonius, Voltumand, and Cornelius. SD and Attendants] omit Q2 Cum alijs F 5. closes thus] Q2 closes with you thus F 64. to make inquire] Q2 you make inquiry F 16. old Polonius, with his man or two Q2 Polonius, and Reynoldo F 1. SD 1 line later in F, which prefixes line 120 “Hor & Mar. My tables-meet] Q2 My Tables, my Tables meet F 119. Remember] Q2 adue, Hamlet: remember F 98. With almost all the holy vows] Q2 with all the vowes F 124. particular act and place] Q2 peculiar Sect and force F 38. Stayed] Q2 Very like, very like: staid F 257.

Indeed, sirs] Q2 Indeed, indeed Sirs F 239, 241, 243. Where, as] Q1 (Where as) Whereas Q2, F 224. at point exactly] Q2 at all points exactly F 212. Or ever I had seen] Q2 Ere I had euer seene F 192. you to drink deep ere] F you for to drinke ere Q2 185. on ’t, ah fie! ’Tis] Q2 on’t? Oh fie, fie, ’tis F 141. self-slaughter] F seale slaughter Q2 136. Cornelius] Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, and his Sister Ophelia, Lords Attendant F 1. we have two nights seen] Q2 we two Nights haue seene F 46. means second or corrected state ~ stands in place of a word already quoted before the square bracket ^ indicates the omission of a punctuation mark.ġ.1. SD means stage direction SP means speech prefix uncorr. No sources are given for emendations of punctuation or for corrections of obvious typographical errors, like turned letters that produce no known word.

is an earlier editor of Shakespeare, beginning with Rowe in 1709. The earliest sources of readings not in Q2, the Second Quarto text (upon which this edition is based), are indicated as follows: Q1 is the First Quarto of 1603 Q3 is the Third Quarto of 1611 Q4 is the Fourth Quarto of ? 1622 Q5 is the Fifth Quarto of 1637 F is the First Folio of 1623 F2 is the Second Folio of 1632 F3 is the Third Folio of 1663–64 F4 is the Fourth Folio of 1685 Ed. The reading of the present text appears to the left of the square bracket.

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