[Sidenote: _Ger._]

_Ham._ Do you not come your tardy Sonne to chide,
That laps't in Time and Passion, lets go by[12]
Th'important acting of your dread command? Oh say.[13]

[Footnote 1: --his mother's matronly age.]

[Footnote 2: She gives way at last.]

[Footnote 3: --spots whose blackness has sunk into the grain, or final
particles of the substance.]

[Footnote 4: --transition form of tint:--'will never give up their
colour;' 'will never be cleansed.']

[Footnote 5: He persists.]

[Footnote 6: --Claudius himself--his body no 'temple of the Holy Ghost,'
but a pig-sty. 3.]

[Footnote 7: The clown of the old Moral Play.]

[Footnote 8: She seems neither surprised nor indignant at any point in
the accusation: her consciousness of her own guiit has overwhelmed her.]

[Footnote 9: The _1st Q._ has _Enter the ghost in his night gowne_. It
was then from the first intended that he should not at this point appear
in armour--in which, indeed, the epithet _gracious figure_ could hardly
be applied to him, though it might well enough in one of the costumes in
which Hamlet was accustomed to see him--as this dressing-gown of the
_1st Q._ A ghost would appear in the costume in which he naturally
imagined himself, and in his wife's room would not show himself clothed
as when walking among the fortifications of the castle. But by the words
lower down (174)--

My Father in his habite, as he liued,

the Poet indicates, not his dressing-gown, but his usual habit, _i.e._
attire.]

[Footnote 10: --almost the same invocation as when first he saw the
apparition.]

[Footnote 11: The queen cannot see the Ghost. Her conduct has built such
a wall between her and her husband that I doubt whether, were she a
ghost also, she could see him. Her heart had left him, so they are no
more together in the sphere of mutual vision. Neither does the Ghost
wish to show himself to her. As his presence is not corporeal, a ghost
may be present to but one of a company.]

[Footnote 12: 1. 'Who, lapsed (_fallen, guilty_), lets action slip in
delay and suffering.' 2. 'Who, lapsed in (_fallen in, overwhelmed by_)
delay and suffering, omits' &c. 3. 'lapsed in respect of time, and
because of passion'--the meaning of the preposition _in_, common to
both, reacted upon by the word it governs. 4. 'faulty both in delaying,
and in yielding to suffering, when action is required.' 5. 'lapsed
through having too much time and great suffering.