3rd new word

[Sarah Stockwell]

My book glosses "know thou a more horrid hent" as "be grasped at a more 
dreadful time."  So despite what one (like me) might think from context, it's 
consistent with the meaning below, though used as a noun.

--Sarah (who knows you were all hanging on desperately, waiting for that 
information)

> > >So can someone enlighten us as to what "napiform," "hent," and "jargoon"
> > >mean?
> > >
> > hent: to take hold of; seize (obs.)
> 
> Well, and of course there's always:
> 
>  	Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:
>         When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
>         Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
>         At gaming, swearing, or about some act
>         That has no relish of salvation in't;
>         Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,
>         And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
>         As hell, whereto it goes.
> 
> (from Hamlet III.ii).  But I've never known what it meant except what the context implies; I'll check the notes in my Riverside Shakespeare this evening.
> 
> --Sarah