_Qu._ No, nothing but our selues. [Sidenote: _Ger._]

_Ham._ Why look you there: looke how it steals away:
[Sidenote: 173] My Father in his habite, as he liued,
Looke where he goes euen now out at the Portall.
_Exit._ [Sidenote: _Exit Ghost._]

[Sidenote: 114] _Qu._ This is the very coynage of your Braine,
[Sidenote: _Ger._]

[Footnote 1: The Ghost here judges, as alone is possible to him, from
what he knows--from the fact that his brother Claudius has not yet made
his appearance in the ghost-world. Not understanding Hamlet's
difficulties, he mistakes Hamlet himself.]

[Footnote 2: He mistakes also, through his tenderness, the condition of
his wife--imagining, it would seem, that she feels his presence, though
she cannot see him, or recognize the source of the influence which he
supposes to be moving her conscience: she is only perturbed by Hamlet's
behaviour.]

[Footnote 3: --fighting within itself, as the sea in a storm may be said
to fight.

He is careful as ever over the wife he had loved and loves still;
careful no less of the behaviour of the son to his mother.

In the _1st Q._ we have:--

But I perceiue by thy distracted lookes,
Thy mother's fearefull, and she stands amazde:
Speake to her Hamlet, for her sex is weake,
Comfort thy mother, Hamlet, thinke on me.]

[Footnote 4: --not used here for bare _imagination_, but imagination
with its concomitant feeling:--_conception_. 198.]

[Footnote 5: His last word ere he vanishes utterly, concerns his queen;
he is tender and gracious still to her who sent him to hell. This
attitude of the Ghost towards his faithless wife, is one of the
profoundest things in the play. All the time she is not thinking of him
any more than seeing him--for 'is he not dead!'--is looking straight at
where he stands, but is all unaware of him.]

[Footnote 6: I understand him to speak this with a kind of lost,
mechanical obedience. The description his mother gives of him makes it
seem as if the Ghost were drawing his ghost out to himself, and turning
his body thereby half dead.]

[Footnote 7: 'as if there were life in excrements.' The nails and hair
were 'excrements'--things _growing out_.]

[Footnote 8: Note the form _an end_--not _on end_. 51, 71.]

[Footnote 9: --all spoken coaxingly, as to one in a mad fit. She regards
his perturbation as a sud