If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men.
[80] I.e. the King will kill her to make all sure.
[81] I do not rely so much on his own statement to Laertes (iv. vii. 12 f.) as on the absence of contrary indications, on his tone in speaking to her, and on such signs as his mention of her in soliloquy (iii. iii. 55).
[82] This also is quietly indicated. Hamlet spares the King, he says, because if the King is killed praying he will go to heaven. On Hamlet's departure, the King rises from his knees, and mutters:
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
[83] I am indebted to Werder in this paragraph.
[84] The attempt to explain this meeting as pre-arranged by Hamlet is scarcely worth mention.