In the following passage, the Folios have ‘cou’nant,’ a quarto of 1676 ‘compact,’ the Globe ed. ‘covenant’: the real word intended remains unsettled.
1605. (Qo.) Shaks., Ham., I. i. 93 [also in Qo 1607]. Which had returne To the inheritance of Fortinbrasse, Had he bin vanquisher; as by the same comart, And carriage of the article desseigne, His fell to Hamlet.
