Osr. How is't Laertes? [Sidenote: Ostr.]
Laer. Why as a Woodcocke[13] To mine Sprindge, Osricke, [Sidenote: mine owne sprindge Ostrick,] I am iustly kill'd with mine owne Treacherie.[14]
Ham. How does the Queene?
King. She sounds[15] to see them bleede.
Qu. No, no, the drinke, the drinke[16]
[Footnote 1: She is anxious about him. It may be that this speech, and that of the king before (266), were fitted to the person of the actor who first represented Hamlet.]
[Footnote 2: —a simple acknowledgment of her politeness: he can no more be familiarly loving with his mother.]
[Footnote 3: She drinks, and offers the cup to Hamlet.]
[Footnote 4: He is too much afraid of exposing his villainy to be prompt enough to prevent her.]
[Footnote 5: This is not meant by the Poet to show suspicion: he does not mean Hamlet to die so.]