[Footnote 5: —as a quotation.]
[Footnote 6: Instance, the history of Macbeth.]
[Footnote 7: 1st Q. Enter Ofelia playing on a Lute, and her haire downe singing.
Hamlet's apparent madness would seem to pass into real madness in Ophelia. King Lear's growing perturbation becomes insanity the moment he sees the pretended madman Edgar.
The forms of Ophelia's madness show it was not her father's death that drove her mad, but his death by the hand of Hamlet, which, with Hamlet's banishment, destroyed all the hope the queen had been fostering in her of marrying him some day.]
[Footnote 8: This expression is, as Dr. Johnson says, taken from cookery; but it is so used elsewhere by Shakspere that we cannot regard it here as a scintillation of Ophelia's insanity.]
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King. How do ye, pretty Lady? [Sidenote: you]
Ophe. Well, God dil'd you.[1] They say the [Sidenote: good dild you,[1] Owle was a Bakers daughter.[2] Lord, wee know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your Table.
[Sidenote: 174] King. Conceit[3] vpon her Father.