Hamlet

7 Spurns ... straws strikes out spitefully at trifles

7 in doubt of unclear meaning

9 use manner/utterance

10 collection a gathering of meaning

10 aim guess

11 botch patch, stitch clumsily together

12 Which which words

12 yield convey, deliver

13 thought intended

14 unhappily ominously near the truth/maliciously

16 ill-breeding mischief-making

19 toy trifle

19 amiss wrong, calamity

20 artless jealousy unskilled suspicion

21 It ... spilt its excessive fear of being revealed ends up betraying it ("to spill" means both to destroy and to reveal) 26 cockle hat hat with a cockle-shell on it, showing that the wearer had visited the Spanish shrine of Santiago (Saint James) of Compostela; a staff and sandals were also typical of such a pilgrim 27 shoon shoes

38 Larded strewn, covered

40 showers i.e. of tears

42 yield reward; a common way to express thanks

42 owl ... daughter refers to the tale of a baker's daughter who was turned into an owl after she had been ungenerous to Jesus when he begged for bread 45 Conceit upon fanciful thinking about/brooding on

49 betime early

51 Valentine sweetheart, supposedly the first person of the opposite sex one saw on Valentine's Day 52 rose the sexual innuendo of Ophelia's language suggests possible erectile connotations 53 dupped opened (perhaps punning on "tupped," i.e. "had sex with") 53 chamber door playing on vaginal connotations

54 maid virgin

58 Gis Jesus

60 do't have sex

61 cock euphemism for God, plays on sense of "penis"

62 tumbled had sex with

65 An if

76 spies scouts sent ahead of the main army

79 remove removal

79 muddied stirred up