[8] foes.
[9] daggers.
[10] groaned.
[11] unless.
[12] Reprinted in Collier's Shakespeare's Library. This translation shows in more than one place the influence of Shakespeare's play. For example, Hamlet's exclamation before he kills Polonius, "A rat! a rat!" is in the English version, but there is no suggestion of it in the French original.
[13] In Notes and Queries, February, 1899.
[14] Leonard Digges also wrote verses "To the Memorie of the deceased Authour Maister W. Shakespeare," prefixed to the First Folio.
[15] In The Academy, September 18, 1875. See also The Leopold Shakspere, Introduction.
[16] Julius Cæsar, The Clarendon Press, Introduction, p. viii.
[17] This is strong evidence that the play had not been printed at an earlier date.