death,[14]
The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne
No Traueller returnes,[15] Puzels the will,
And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,
Then flye to others that we know not of.
Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,[16]
[Sidenote: 30] And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution[17]
Is sicklied o're, with the pale cast of Thought,[18]
[Sidenote: sickled]

[Footnote 1: _Not in Q._--They go behind the tapestry, where it hangs
over the recess of the doorway. Ophelia thinks they have left the room.]

[Footnote 2: _In Q. before last speech._]

[Footnote 3: Perhaps to a Danish or Dutch critic, or one from the
eastern coast of England, this simile would not seem so unfit as it does
to some.]

[Footnote 4: To print this so as I would have it read, I would complete
this line from here with points, and commence the next with points. At
the other breaks of the soliloquy, as indicated below, I would do the
same--thus:

And by opposing end them....
....To die--to sleep,]

[Footnote 5: _Break_.]

[Footnote 6: _Break_.]

[Footnote 7: Emphasis on _what_.]

[Footnote 8: Such dreams as the poor Ghost's.]

[Footnote 9: _Break._ --'_pawse_' is the noun, and from its use at page
186, we may judge it means here 'pause for reflection.']

[Footnote 10: 'makes calamity so long-lived.']

[Footnote 11: --not necessarily disprized by the _lady_; the disprizer
in Hamlet's case was the worldly and suspicious father--and that in
part, and seemingly to Hamlet altogether, for the king's sake.]

[Footnote 12: _small sword_. If there be here any allusion to suicide,
it is on the general question, and with no special application to
himself. 24. But it is the king and the bare bodkin his thought
associates. How could he even glance at the things he has just
mentioned, as each, a reason for suicide? It were a cowardly country
indeed where the question might be asked, 'Who would not commit suicide
because of any one of these things, except on account of what may follow
after death?'! One might well, however, be tempted to destroy an
oppressor, _and risk his life in that._]

[Footnote 13: _Fardel_, burden: the old French for _fardeau_, I am
informed.]

[Footnote 14: --a dread caused by conscience.]

[Footnote 15: The Ghost could not be imagined as having _returned_.]

[Footnote 16: 'of us all' _not in Q._ It is not the fear of evil that
makes us c