Other. Why 'tis found so.[13]
Clo. It must be Se offendendo,[14] it cannot bee else:
[Sidenote: be so offended, it]
[Footnote 1: They were not lauds she was in the habit of singing, to judge by the snatches given.]
[Footnote 2: not able to take in, not understanding, not conscious of.]
[Footnote 3: clothed, endowed, fitted for. See Sh. Lex.]
[Footnote 4: Could the word be for buoy—'her clothes spread wide,' on which she floated singing—therefore her melodious buoy or float?]
[Footnote 5: How could the queen know all this, when there was no one near enough to rescue her? Does not the Poet intend the mode of her death given here for an invention of the queen, to hide the girl's suicide, and by circumstance beguile the sorrow-rage of Laertes?]
[Footnote 6: 'I cannot help it.']
[Footnote 7: 'when these few tears are spent, all the woman will be out of me: I shall be a man again.']
[Footnote 8: douts: 'this foolish water of tears puts it out.' See Q. reading.]