Hamlet

221 union valuable pearl

224 kettle kettledrum

243 fat may suggest greasy/sweaty, but primary sense is corpulent, overweight 244 napkin handkerchief

245 carouses to toasts

256 pass thrust

257 make ... me toy with me/indulge me

257 wanton spoiled child

260 scuffling fighting at close quarters

260.1 change exchange, probably via the maneuver known as "left-hand seizure" (see Introduction, p. xv) 266 woodcock proverbially stupid, easily caught birds

266 springe snare

278 practice plot

287 Drink off drink up, drain

287 union pearl (plays on the sense of "marriage")

290 tempered mixed

296 chance mischance/event

297 mutes silent onlookers/actors without speaking parts 297 act event/theatrical performance

298 fell cruel

299 strict rigorously just/unrelenting, stern

299 arrest taking into custody/halting (of my words)

301 causes grievances, grounds for revenge

302 unsatisfied uninformed/those who wish to know

304 antique Roman one of the ancient Romans, who viewed suicide as a noble alternative to an unworthy

life 311 felicity happiness, bliss

318 o'er-crows triumphs over (an image from cockfighting) 320 th'election i.e. the selection of the next king of Denmark 321 voice vote/support

322 occurrents events

323 solicited prompted this

323 O ... o! a dying groan is represented thus in several plays of the period 326.1 Colours battle flags

328 would wish to

330 quarry pile of dead game after a hunt

330 quarry ... havoc mound of bodies proclaims total slaughter and destruction 331 toward imminent/being prepared