[Footnote 9: Nothing in this world is of much consequence to him now.
Also, he believes in 'a special Providence.']
[Footnote 10: 'a yielding, a sinking' at the heart? The Sh. Lex. says misgiving.]
[Footnote 11: 'obey the warning.']
[Footnote 12: 'go to them before they come here'—'prevent their coming.']
[Footnote 13: The knowledge, even, of what is to come could never, any more than ordinary expediency, be the law of a man's conduct. St. Paul, informed by the prophet Agabus of the troubles that awaited him at Jerusalem, and entreated by his friends not to go thither, believed the prophet, and went on to Jerusalem to be delivered into the hands of the Gentiles.]
[Footnote 14: One of Shakspere's many allusions to sayings of the Lord.]
[Footnote 15: Osricke does not come back: he has begged off but ventures later, under the wing of the king.]
[Footnote 16: May not this form of the name suggest that in it is intended the 'foolish' ostrich?]
[Footnote 17: The king is making delay: he has to have his 'union' ready.]
[Footnote 18: 'if he feels ready, I am.']