[Footnote 6: The actor should not allow her: she approaches Hamlet; he recoils a little.]
[Footnote 7: He has compunctions, but it needs failure to make them potent.]
[Footnote 8: 'treat me as an effeminate creature.']
[Footnote 9: He makes a sudden attack, without warning of the fourth bout.]
[Footnote 10: Not in Q.
The 1st Q. directs:—They catch one anothers Rapiers, find both are wounded, &c.
The thing, as I understand it, goes thus: With the words 'Have at you now!' Laertes stabs Hamlet; Hamlet, apprised thus of his treachery, lays hold of his rapier, wrenches it from him, and stabs him with it in return.]
[Footnote 11: 'they have lost their temper.']
[Footnote 12: —said with indignation and scorn, but without suspicion of the worst.]
[Footnote 13: —the proverbially foolish bird. The speech must be spoken with breaks. Its construction is broken.]