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Pol. Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.

Oph. And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
With almost all the holy^{[a 1]} vows of heaven.

Pol. Ay, springes to catch woodcocks.^{[b 1]} I do know, 155
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends^{[a 2]} the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,^{[b 2]}
Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,^{[a 3]}
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
You must not take for fire. From this time^{[a 4]} 120
Be somewhat^{[a 5]} scanter of your maiden presence;
Set your entreatments^{[b 3]} at a higher rate
Than a command to parley.^{[a 6]} For Lord Hamlet,
Believe so much in him, that he is young,
And with a larger tether may he walk 125
Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,^{[b 4]}
Not of that dye^{[a 7]} which their investments show,^{[b 5]}
But mere implorators of unholy suits,

1. 114, almost . . . holy] Q, all the F.
2. 117. Lends] Q 1, Q; Gives F.
3. 118. both] birth, Badham conj.
4. 120. From this time] Q, For this time Daughter F.
5. 121. somewhat] F, something Q.
6. 123. parley] F, park Q.
7. 128. that dye] Q, the eye F.

1. 115. woodcocks] birds supposed to be witless, easily taken in springes or snares. Clar. Press quotes from Gosson's Apologie for the Schoole of Abuse: "Cupid sets up a springe for woodcocks."
2. 117.] To amend the verse Pope read "Oh, my daughter"; Capell, "gentle daughter" ; Nicholson conj. "havin blazes"; S. T. Coleridge, "Go to, these," or "daughter, mark you."
3. 122. entreatments] Johnson explains as company, conversation, French entrétien Clar. Press, solicitations; Schmidt, invitations received; New Eng. Dict., conversation, interview, from the commoner meaning of negotiation, discussion.
4. 127. brokers] middlemen in making bargains; used specially of panders, procurers. Furness quotes Cotgrave: "Maquinonner, To play the Broker, also to play the bawd."
5. 128. dye . . . show] colour shown by their vesture or garb. F "the eye" may mean tint or hue, as in Tempest, II. i. 55.