Hamlet's second utterance: forty-three interpretations -- Ending of Hamlet as a farewell to Essex -- Jack Donne: from rake to husband -- The 'Haemony' passage in Comus -- "That two-handed engine" and Savonarola and the Blackfriars fatal vespers -- New objections to a pre-restoration date for Samson agonistes -- Marvell's "The nymph complaining for the death of her fawn" -- Appendices: New critic pauses over Eva -- Postscript to "The ending of Hamlet as a farewell to Essex".