Ham. Mother, mother, O are you here? How i'st with you mother?

Queene How i'st with you?

Ham, I'le tell you, but first weele make all safe.

Here, evidently, he bolts the doors.]

[Footnote 6: 1st Q.

Queene How now boy?

Ham. How now mother! come here, sit downe, for you shall heare me speake.]

[Footnote 7: —'that you speak to me in such fashion?']

[Footnote 8: Point thus: 'so: you'—'would you were not so, for you are my mother.'—with emphasis on 'my.' The whole is spoken sadly.]

[Footnote 9: —'speak so that you must mind them.']