For out o' doors[a 1] he went without their help,[a 2]
And to the last bended their light on me. 100
Pol. Come,[a 3] go with me; I will go seek the king.
This is the very ecstasy[b 1] of love;
Whose violent property fordoes[a 4][b 2] itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
As oft as any passion[a 5] under heaven 105
That does afflict our natures. I am sorry,—[a 6][b 3]
What, have you given him any hard words of late?
Oph. No, my good lord, but, as you did command,
I did repel his letters and denied
His access to me.
Pol. That hath made him mad. 110
I am sorry that with better heed[a 7][b 4] and judgement
I had not quoted[a 8][b 5] him: I fear'd[a 9] he did but trifle
And meant to wreck thee; but beshrew my jealousy![b 6]
By heaven,[a 10] it is as proper[b 7] to our age
To cast beyond[b 8] ourselves in our opinions 115
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:
- ↑ 99. o' doors] Theobald, adoors (with various spellings) Q, F.
- ↑ 99. help] Q 1, F; helps Q.
- ↑ 101. Come,] Q; omitted F.
- ↑ 103. fordoes] forgoes Qq 4–6.
- ↑ 105. passion] F, passions Q,
- ↑ 106. sorry,—] Capell; sorry, Q, F (Q 6 sorrie;); sorry. Globe.
- ↑ 111. heed] Q, speed F.
- ↑ 112. quoted] F, coted Q.
- ↑ 112. fear'd] Q, feare F.
- ↑ 114. By heaven] Q 1, Q; It seemes F.
- ↑ 102. ecstasy] madness, as in III. i. 168, and elsewhere in this play.
- ↑ 103. fordoes] destroys; the for is here negative, as in V. i. 2?: it is intensive in "fordone," Midsummer Night's Dream, V. 381.
- ↑ 106. I am sorry,—] Capell's pointing indicates a broken sentence. Polonius takes it up again in line 111.
- ↑ 111. heed] Theobald preferred the F speed, meaning success.
- ↑ 112. quoted] noted, observed, as in Romeo and Juliet, I. iv. 31: "What curious eye doth quote deformities?"
- ↑ 113. jealousy] suspicion, as frequently in Shakespeare.
- ↑ 114. is as proper] belongs as much, as in Julius Cæsar, I. ii. 41: "Conceptions only proper to myself."
- ↑ 115. cast beyond] overshoot, Clar. Press explains cast: to contrive, design, plan, quoting Spenser, Faerie Queene, I. v. 12, "he cast avenged to be."
