'our disposition': our cosmic structure.]
[Footnote 8: 'with thoughts that are too much for them, and as an earthquake to them.']
[Footnote 9: Like all true souls, Hamlet wants to know what he is to do. He looks out for the action required of him.]
[Footnote 10: Note here Hamlet's mood—dominated by his faith. His life in this world his mother has ruined; he does not care for it a pin: he is not the less confident of a nature that is immortal. In virtue of this belief in life, he is indifferent to the form of it. When, later in the play, he seems to fear death, it is death the consequence of an action of whose rightness he is not convinced.]
[Footnote 11: The Quarto has dropped out 'Lord.']
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Or to the dreadfull Sonnet of the Cliffe, [Sidenote: somnet]
That beetles[1] o're his base into the Sea, [Sidenote: bettles]
[Sidenote: 112] And there assumes some other horrible forme,[2]
[Sidenote: assume]
Which might depriue your Soueraignty[3] of Reason
And draw you into madnesse thinke of it?
[A]
Ham. It wafts me still; goe on, Ile follow thee. [Sidenote: waues]
Mar. You shall not goe my Lord.