20: Essay III. 4, p. 384.
21: Rather sharp translations of songe-creux, as Montaigne
calls himself (Florio, i. 19, p. 34). 'I am given rather to
dreaming and sluggishness.'
22: ''S wounds' (God's wounds)—a most characteristic expression;
used by Shakspere only in Hamlet, in this scene, and again
in act v. sc. 2.
23: As yet, Hamlet has but one ground of action—namely, the one which, after the apparition of the Ghost, he set down in his tablets: 'that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark.'
24: Act ii. sc. 2.
25: Essay I. 19.
26: II. 3.
27: Tacitus, annal. xiii. 56.
28: Essay I. 19.
29: Act. i. sc. 2.