alme his rage?
Now feare I this will giue it start againe;
Therefore let's follow. _Exeunt_.[9]

[10]_Enter two Clownes._

_Clown_. Is she to bee buried in Christian buriall,
[Sidenote: buriall, when she wilfully]
that wilfully seekes her owne saluation?[11]

_Other_. I tell thee she is, and therefore make her
[Sidenote: is, therefore]
Graue straight,[12] the Crowner hath sate on her, and
finds it Christian buriall.

_Clo_. How can that be, vnlesse she drowned her
selfe in her owne defence?

_Other_. Why 'tis found so.[13]

_Clo_. It must be _Se offendendo_,[14] it cannot bee else:
[Sidenote: be so offended, it]

[Footnote 1: They were not lauds she was in the habit of singing, to
judge by the snatches given.]

[Footnote 2: not able to take in, not understanding, not conscious of.]

[Footnote 3: clothed, endowed, fitted for. See _Sh. Lex._]

[Footnote 4: _Could_ the word be for _buoy_--'her clothes spread wide,'
on which she floated singing--therefore her melodious buoy or float?]

[Footnote 5: How could the queen know all this, when there was no one
near enough to rescue her? Does not the Poet intend the mode of her
death given here for an invention of the queen, to hide the girl's
suicide, and by circumstance beguile the sorrow-rage of Laertes?]

[Footnote 6: 'I cannot help it.']

[Footnote 7: 'when these few tears are spent, all the woman will be out
of me: I shall be a man again.']

[Footnote 8: _douts_: 'this foolish water of tears puts it out.' _See Q.
reading._]

[Footnote 9: Here ends the Fourth Act, between which and the Fifth may
intervene a day or two.]

[Footnote 10: Act V. This act _requires_ only part of a day; the funeral
and the catastrophe might be on the same.]

[Footnote 11: Has this a confused connection with the fancy that
salvation is getting to heaven?]

[Footnote 12: Whether this means _straightway_, or _not crooked_, I
cannot tell.]

[Footnote 13: 'the coroner has settled it.']

[Footnote 14: The Clown's blunder for _defendendo_.]

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for heere lies the point; If I drowne my selfe
wittingly, it argues an Act: and an Act hath three
branches. It is an Act to doe and to performe;
[Sidenote: it is to act, to doe, to performe, or all: she]
argall[1] she drown'd her selfe wittingly.

_Other_. Nay but heare you