[Sidenote: with almost all the holy vowes of] [Footnote 1: There had then been a good deal of intercourse between Hamlet and Ophelia: she had heartily encouraged him.]

My Lord, it greeves me to be thus unmaskt And made ridiculous in the stealth of love; But (for Lucilias honour) I protest (Not for the desperate vowe that Flores made)

How gladly would I be thy Lady still, If earnest vowes might answere to my will.

Madam, this letter and his humble vowes From your deserving sonn.