[Footnote 14: —the choice of Ophelia's fantastic madness, as being the tree of lamenting lovers.]
[Footnote 15: —always busy with flowers.]
[Footnote 16: Ranunculus: Sh. Lex.]
[Footnote 17: —specially descriptive of the willow.]
[Footnote 18: her wild flowers made into a garland.]
[Footnote 19: The intention would seem, that she imagined herself decorating a monument to her father. Hence her Coronet weeds and the Poet's weedy Trophies.]
[Footnote 20: Sliver, I suspect, called so after the fact, because slivered or torn off. In Macbeth we have:
slips of yew
Slivered in the moon's eclipse.
But it may be that sliver was used for a twig, such as could be torn off.
Slip and sliver must be of the same root.]