ce _loggats_, as the name of an old game among the common
people, and one of those forbidden by a statute of the 33rd of
Henry VIII. A stake was fixed into the ground, and those who
played threw _loggats_ at it.]

[Footnote V.20: _For and a shrouding sheet:_] For and is an
ancient expression, answering to _and eke, and likewise_.]

[Footnote V.21: _Where be his quiddits now, his quillets_,]
Quiddits are subtilties; quillets are nice and frivolous
distinctions.]

[Footnote V.22: _Knock him about the sconce_] _i.e._, head.]

[Footnote V.23: _How absolute the knave is!_] Peremptory,
strictly and tyrannously precise.]

[Footnote V.24: _We must speak by the card_,] The _card_ is the
mariner's compass. Properly the paper on which the points of the
wind are marked. Hence, _to speak by the card_, meant to speak
with great exactness; true to a point.]

[Footnote V.25: _The very day that young Hamlet was born_,] It
would appear by this that Hamlet was thirty years old, and knew
Yorick well, who had been dead twenty-two years.]

[Footnote V.26: _Favour_] Feature, countenance, or complexion.]

[Footnote V.27: _'Twere to consider too curiously_,] Be pressing
the argument with too much critical nicety, to dwell upon mere
possibilities.]

[Footnote V.28: _Imperial Caesar_,] In some edition it is
_imperious_ Caesar. Imperious was a more ancient term, signifying
the same as imperial.]

[Footnote V.29: _The winter's flaw!_] _i.e._, winter's blast.]

[Footnote V.30: _Maimed rites?_] Curtailed, imperfect.]

[Footnote V.31: _Fordo its own life:_] Destroy.]

[Footnote V.32: _'Twas of some estate._] _i.e._, of rank or
station.]

[Footnote V.33: _Command o'ersways the order_,] The course which
ecclesiastical rules prescribe.]

[Footnote V.34: _Shards_,] _i.e._, broken pots or tiles.]

[Footnote V.35: _Virgin crants_,] _i.e._, virgin garlands. Nares,
in his Glossary, says that _crants_ is a German word, and
probably Icelandic.]

[Footnote V.36: _Bringing home of bell and burial_,] Conveying to
her last home with these accustomed forms of the church, and this
sepulture in consecrated ground.]

[Footnote V.37: _A requiem_,] A mass performed in Popish churches
for the rest of the soul of a person deceased.]

[Footnote V.38: _Churlish priest_,] Churlish is, fi