Hamlet

2.1 Location: within the royal castle at Elsinore; this remains the location for all scenes until Act 4 scene 3

3 marvellous marvelously, extremely

4 you i.e. if you

8 Inquire me inquire (me is emphatic)

8 Danskers Danes

9 keep lodge

11 encompassment roundabout manner of talking

11 drift general aim

12 come ... it you will come closer to the truth than you would were you to ask specific, pointed questions 14 Take you assume, affect

20 Addicted devoted or inclined to

21 forgeries fabrications

21 rank excessive/coarse

23 wanton boisterous/wild/lustful

23 slips flaws, foibles

26 gaming gambling

28 Drabbing using prostitutes

30 season ... charge moderate the accusation

32 incontinency excessive sexual license

33 quaintly artfully, skillfully

34 taints of liberty faults resulting from too much freedom

36 savageness wildness

36 unreclaimed untamed

37 Of general assault by which all men are affected

41 drift intention/plan

42 fetch of warrant legitimate stratagem

44 As 'twere as if he were

44 i'th'working in the handling, the manufacture

45 party in converse the person with whom you are conversing

45 sound question, probe

46 Having ever if he has ever