Note to Hamlet, 4.1.40: "[for, haply, slander]"


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These three words are printed in brackets because they are not in Shakespeare's text, even though the first part of the line, "And what's untimely done," doesn't make complete sense by itself. The emendation,"for, haply, slander," is the educated guess of Capell, an early editor of Shakespeare.