Hamlet on the Ramparts, Folger Text 6

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+ + = emendation; <> = First Folio; [ ] = Second Quarto only

+1.5+

HAMLET
          O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
          And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart,
          And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,              101
          But bear me <stiffly> up. Remember thee?
          Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat
          In this distracted globe. Remember thee?
          Yea, from the table of my memory                       105
          I'll wipe away all trivial, fond records,
          All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
          That youth and observation copied there,
          And thy commandment all alone shall live
          Within the book and volume of my brain,                110
          Unmixed with baser matter. Yes, by heaven!
          O most pernicious woman!
          O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
          My tables--meet it is I set it down
          That one may smile and smile and be a villain.         115
          At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. +He writes.+
          So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word.
          It is "adieu, adieu, remember me."
          I have sworn 't.

1.5.104 globe: Hamlet perhaps gestures to his head.

1.5.105   table: table-book or slate, used here metaphorically
     (Hamlet wants to wipe his memory clean, as one would
     erase a slate or table-book. Later [lines 114-116), he
     takes out actual "tables.")

1.5.106 fond records: foolish jottings (records accented on the
second syllable)

1.5.108 youth and observation: youthful observation

1.5.114 meet it is: it is appropriate that