218 brainish apprehension headstrong conviction/deluded understanding 220 heavy sorrowful
224 answered accounted for
225 providence foresight/arrangements
226 short on a tight leash
226 haunt company
230 divulging becoming apparent
232 apart away
233 ore precious metal
234 mineral mine or its products
240 countenance confront/bear out
248 what's untimely done i.e. Polonius' premature death
Act 4 Scene 1
1 Stowed lodged (refers to Polonius' body); plays on slang sense of "kept quiet," "shut up"
5 Compounded united, mingled
10 keep ... own keep your secrets and not my own/follow your advice (and tell you where the body is) and yet keep my own secret 11 demanded of questioned by
11 replication response
14 countenance favor
15 authorities power, influence
17 mouthed taken into the mouth
21 sleeps in i.e. is wasted on
25 The ... body Claudius has a physical body, but he does not possess true kingship/the body is here in the castle, like Claudius; however he, not being dead, is not with Polonius/Polonius is with the true king, dead Hamlet senior, not with the usurping Claudius/Polonius is with God, rather than Claudius 28 Hide ... after refers to a children's game in which one person (the fox) hides and the others pursue him Act 4 Scene 2
4 of by
4 distracted deranged/confused/foolish
6 scourge punishment
6 weighed considered
7 bear ... even manage matters smoothly and evenly
9 Deliberate pause i.e. the result of careful consideration 10 appliance remedy
15 Without outside
22 convocation political assembly
22 convocation ... diet a punning allusion to the Diet (i.e. assembly) of the German city of Worms 22 e'en even now