[Footnote 7: gentle manners.]
[Footnote 8: fine presence.]
[Footnote 9: Is this a stupid attempt at wit on the part of Osricke—'to praise him as if you wanted to sell him'—stupid because it acknowledges exaggeration?]
[Footnote 10: 'the chart or book of reference.' 234.]
[Footnote 11: I think part here should be plural; then the passage would paraphrase thus:—'you shall find in him the sum of what parts (endowments) a gentleman would wish to see.']
[Footnote 12: Hamlet answers the fool according to his folly, but outdoes him, to his discomfiture.]
[Footnote 13: 'his description suffers no loss in your mouth.']
[Footnote 14: 'to analyze him into all and each of his qualities.']
[Footnote 15: dizzy.]
[Footnote 16: 'and yet would but yaw neither' Yaw, 'the movement by which a ship deviates from the line of her course towards the right or left in steering.' Falconer's Marine Dictionary. The meaning seems to be that the inventorial description could not overtake his merits, because it would yaw—keep turning out of the direct line of their quick sail. But Hamlet is set on using far-fetched and absurd forms and phrases to the non-plussing of Osricke, nor cares much to be correct.]