[Footnote 7: related; 'akin to the matter.']
[Footnote 8: He uses Osricke's words—with a touch of derision, I should say.]
[Footnote 9: I do not take the Quarto reading for incorrect. Hamlet says: 'why is this all——you call it —? —?' as if he wanted to use the word (imponed) which Osricke had used, but did not remember it: he asks for it, saying 'you call it' interrogatively.]
[Footnote 10: 1st Q
that yong Leartes in twelue venies 223 At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you,]
[Footnote 11: In all printer's work errors are apt to come in clusters.]
[Footnote 12: the response, or acceptance of the challenge.]
[Footnote 13: Hamlet plays with the word, pretending to take it in its common meaning.]
[Footnote 14: 'By answer, I mean, my lord, the opposition &c.']
[Footnote 15: 'my time for exercise:' he treats the proposal as the trifle it seems—a casual affair to be settled at once—hoping perhaps that the king will come with like carelessness.]