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[Footnote I.31: _A little more than kin, and less than kind._] Dr. Johnson says that _kind_ is the Teutonic word for _child_. Hamlet, therefore, answers to the titles of _cousin_ and _son_, which the king had given him, that he was somewhat more than _cousin_, and less than _son_. Steevens remarks, that it seems to have been another proverbial phrase: "The nearer we are in blood, the further we must be from love; the greater the _kindred_ is, the less the _kindness_ must be." _Kin_ is still used in the Midland Counties for _cousin_, and _kind_ signifies _nature_. Hamlet may, therefore, mean that the relationship between them had become _unnatural_.]