[Footnote 2: moderation.]
[Footnote 3: 'Loam, Lome—grafting clay. Mortar made of Clay and Straw; also a sort of Plaister used by Chymists to stop up their Vessels.'—Bailey's Dict.]
[Footnote 4: a sudden puff or blast of wind.
Hamlet here makes a solemn epigram. For the right understanding of the whole scene, the student must remember that Hamlet is philosophizing—following things out, curiously or otherwise—on the brink of a grave, concerning the tenant for which he has enquired—'what woman then?'—but received no answer.]
[Footnote 5: 'the corpse was of some position.']
[Footnote 6: 'let us lie down'—behind a grave or stone.]
[Footnote 7: Hamlet was quite in the dark as to Laertes' character; he had seen next to nothing of him.]
[Footnote 8: The priest making no answer, Laertes repeats the question.]
[Footnote 9: warrantise.]
[Footnote 10: This casts discredit on the queen's story, 222. The priest believes she died by suicide, only calls her death doubtful to excuse their granting her so many of the rites of burial.]