Note to Hamlet, 3.3.6-7: "Hazard so near's as doth hourly grow / Out of his brows"


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Hamlet,
Act 3, Scene 3, lines 6-7
Hazard so near's as doth hourly grow / Out of his brows: i.e., dangers that threaten me so nearly, which grow every hour from his (mad) moods. In the previous scene, when Hamlet exclaimed, "He poisons him i' the garden for's estate," he in effect accused the king of murder. The king's spin is that such a statement is the result of Hamlet's madness, but nevertheless extremely dangerous to the king's reputation and authority.