lians:]
Next your Sonne gone, and he most violent Author
Of his owne iust remoue: the people muddied,[2]
Thicke and vnwholsome in their thoughts, and whispers
[Sidenote: in thoughts]
For[3] good _Polonius_ death; and we haue done but greenly
[Sidenote: 182] In hugger mugger[4] to interre him. Poore _Ophelia_
Diuided from her selfe,[5] and her faire Iudgement,
Without the which we are Pictures, or meere Beasts.
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her Brother is in secret come from France,
Keepes on his wonder,[6] keepes himselfe in clouds,
[Sidenote: Feeds on this[6]]
And wants not Buzzers to infect his eare [Sidenote: care]
With pestilent Speeches of his Fathers death,
Where in necessitie of matter Beggard, [Sidenote: Wherein necessity]
Will nothing sticke our persons to Arraigne [Sidenote: person]
In eare and eare.[7] O my deere _Gertrude_, this,
Like to a murdering Peece[8] in many places,
Giues me superfluous death. _A Noise within_.

_Enter a Messenger_.

_Qu_. Alacke, what noyse is this?[9]

_King_. Where are my _Switzers_?[10]
[Sidenote: _King_. Attend, where is my Swissers,]
Let them guard the doore. What is the matter?

_Mes_. Saue your selfe, my Lord.
[Sidenote: 120] The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List[11])
Eates not the Flats with more impittious[12] haste

[Footnote 1: --each alone, like scouts.]

[Footnote 2: stirred up like pools--with similar result.]

[Footnote 3: because of.]

[Footnote 4: The king wished to avoid giving the people any pretext or
cause for interfering: he dreaded whatever might lead to enquiry--to the
queen of course pretending it was to avoid exposing Hamlet to the
popular indignation. _Hugger mugger--secretly: Steevens and Malone._]

[Footnote 5: The phrase has the same _visual_ root as _beside
herself_--both signifying '_not at one_ with herself.']

[Footnote 6: If the _Quarto_ reading is right, 'this wonder' means the
hurried and suspicious funeral of his father. But the _Folio_ reading is
quite Shaksperean: 'He keeps on (as a garment) the wonder of the people
at him'; _keeps his behaviour such that the people go on wondering about
him_: the phrase is explained by the next clause. Compare:

By being seldom seen, I could not stir
But, like a comet, I was wondered at.

_K. Henry IV. P. I_. act iii. sc