[Footnote 1: Dear is not unfrequently used as an intensive; but 'my dearest foe' is not 'the man who hates me most,' but 'the man whom most I regard as my foe.']
[Footnote 2: Note Hamlet's trouble: the marriage, not the death, nor the supplantation.]
[Footnote 3: —with a little surprise at Horatio's question.]
[Footnote 4: Said as if he must have misheard. Astonishment comes only with the next speech.]
[Footnote 5: 1st Q. 'Ha, ha, the King my father ke you.']
[Footnote 6: Qualify.]
[Footnote 7: 1st Q. 'an attentiue eare,'.]
[Footnote 8: Possibly, dead vast, as in 1st Q.; but waste as good, leaving also room to suppose a play in the word.]
[Footnote 9: Note the careful uncertainty.]
[Footnote 10: 1st Q. 'Capapea.']