34: P. 103.
35: I. 19.
36: Act iii. sc. 2.
37: III. 12 (Florio, 626).
38: We do not doubt that this is a sly thrust at Florio, who, in the
preface to his translation, calls himself 'Montaigne's Vulcan,' who
hatches out Minerva from that 'Jupiter's bigge brain'.
39: Florio, 476.
40: Florio, 592: 'Thus goe the world, and so goe men.'
41: III. 1.
42: II. 27.
43: Clarendon: 'Circumstance of thought' means here the details
over which thought ranges, and from which its conclusions are
formed.
44: '_Index_,' in our opinion, does not signify here either the
title, or prologue, or the indication of the contents of a book,
but is an allusion to the Index of the Holy See and its thunders.
45: Montaigne, III. 10; Florio, 604: 'Custome is a second nature,
and no less powerfull.... To conclude, I am ready to finish this
man, not to make another. By longe custome this forme is changed
into substance, Fortune into Nature.'
46: III. 1.
47: This is wanting in the first quarto, like the whole conclusion
of this scene.
48: This whole scene between Horatio and Hamlet consists of the
following four lines in the old quarto:--
_Hamlet_. Beleeuve me, it greeuves me much, Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myselfe:
For by myselfe methinkes I feel his greefe,
Though there's a difference in each other's way.
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