Page 194 of Hamlet


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81 greenly foolishly

82 hugger-mugger secrecy

85 as much containing of as much significance

87 wonder bewilderment/doubt (about his father's death)

87 in clouds in a state of confusion (or suspicion)/aloof and inscrutable 88 wants lacks

88 buzzers gossips, rumor-mongers

90 of matter beggared deprived of facts and solid evidence 91 nothing ... ear not hesitate to accuse me to one listener after another 93 murdering-piece small cannon which scattered its shot and so could kill more people 94 Gives ... death kills me over and over

96 Switzers Swiss guards (mercenaries commonly employed in royal households) 99 overpeering ... list rising over its boundary

100 flats flat or lowlying land near the shore

101 head insurrection

103 as as if

104 Antiquity ancient tradition

105 The ... word (antiquity and custom are) the things that confirm and support every utterance 107 Caps thrown into the air in support

110 counter following the scent in the wrong direction (hunting term) 110 false disloyal/er ring

112 without outside

116 keep guard

120 cuckold man with an unfaithful wife

121 between in the middle of

121 unsmirched unstained

122 true faithful

125 fear fear for

126 hedge protect

127 but ... will only peep through at what it desires, and carry out little of its intention 135 juggled with tricked, deceived

138 To ... stand I am fixed in this resolve

139 both ... negligence I disregard both this world and the next 141 throughly thoroughly, completely

142 stay prevent

143 My ... world by my will, not all the world shall stop me 144 husband manage

149 sweepstake indiscriminately (from gambling, where one person sweeps up all the stakes on the table) 149 draw gather

154 pelican supposedly this bird fed its young with its own blood 155 Repast feed

159 sensible feeling

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