Note 1062 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
Reading edition
Hamlet, II. ii. 339. This is the Folio text. The Second Quarto omits all but the first ten lines, but that there was some reference to the children in the original version of the play, the date of which may be 1601, is shown by the First Quarto text:
Hamlet. How comes it that they trauell? Do they grow restie? Gilderstone. No my lord, their reputation holds as it was wont. Hamlet. How then? Gilderstone. Yfaith my Lord, noueltie carries it away, For the principali publike audience that Came to them, are turned to private playes, And to the humour of children.