[Footnote 1: 'edge him on'—somehow corrupted into egg.]
[Footnote 2: confront.]
[Footnote 3: Clause in parenthesis not in Q.]
[Footnote 4: —apologetic to the queen.]
[Footnote 5: —going up to Ophelia—I would say, who stands at a little distance, and has not heard what has been passing between them.]
[Footnote 6: The queen encourages Ophelia in hoping to marry Hamlet, and may so have a share in causing a certain turn her madness takes.]
[Footnote 7: —aside to the king.]
[Footnote 8: —to Ophelia: her prayer-book. 122.]
[Footnote 9: 1st Q.
And here Ofelia, reade you on this booke,
And walke aloofe, the King shal be vnseene.]