[Footnote 4: 'take him to a place fit for him to lie in.']
[Footnote 5: 'hold my face to it, and justify it.']
[Footnote 6: —omitting or refusing to embrace her.]
[Footnote 7: —looking at Polonius.]
[Footnote 8: Does this mean for himself to do, or for Polonius to endure?]
[Footnote 9: reeky, smoky, fumy.]
[Footnote 10: Hamlet considers his madness the same that he so deliberately assumed. But his idea of himself goes for nothing where the experts conclude him mad! His absolute clarity where he has no occasion to act madness, goes for as little, for 'all madmen have their sane moments'!]
[Footnote 11: a toad; in Scotland, a frog.]
[Footnote 12: an old cat.]
[Footnote 13: Experiments, Steevens says: is it not rather results?]