be plural; then the passage
would paraphrase thus:--'you shall find in him the sum of what parts
(_endowments_) a gentleman would wish to see.']

[Footnote 12: Hamlet answers the fool according to his folly, but
outdoes him, to his discomfiture.]

[Footnote 13: 'his description suffers no loss in your mouth.']

[Footnote 14: 'to analyze him into all and each of his qualities.']

[Footnote 15: dizzy.]

[Footnote 16: 'and yet _would_ but yaw neither' _Yaw_, 'the movement by
which a ship deviates from the line of her course towards the right or
left in steering.' Falconer's _Marine Dictionary_. The meaning seems to
be that the inventorial description could not overtake his merits,
because it would _yaw_--keep turning out of the direct line of their
quick sail. But Hamlet is set on using far-fetched and absurd forms and
phrases to the non-plussing of Osricke, nor cares much to be _correct_.]

[Footnote 17: I take this use of the word _article_ to be merely for the
occasion; it uas never surely in _use_ for _substance_.]

[Footnote 18: '--the infusion of his soul into his body,' 'his soul's
embodiment.' The _Sh. Lex._ explains _infusion_ as 'endowments,
qualities,' and it may be right.]

[Footnote 19: scarcity.]

[Footnote 20: '--it alone can show his likeness.']

[Footnote 21: 'whoever would follow in his footsteps--copy him--is only
his shadow.']

[Footnote 22: Here a pause, I think.]

[Footnote 23: 'To the matter in hand!'--recalling the attention of
Osricke to the purport of his visit.]

[Footnote 24: 'why do we presume to talk about him with our less refined
breath?']

[Footnote 25: The Courtier is now thoroughly bewildered.]

[Footnote 26: 'Can you only _speak_ in another tongue? Is it not
possible to _understand_ in it as well?']

[Footnote 27: 'It is your own fault; you _will_ court your fate! you
_will_ go and be made a fool of!']

[Footnote 28: He catches at the word he understands. The actor must here
supply the meaning, with the baffled, disconcerted look of a fool who
has failed in the attempt to seem knowing.]

[Footnote 29:--answering the Courtier.]

[Footnote 30: He pauses, looking for some out-of-the-way mode wherein to
continue. Hamlet takes him up.]

[Footnote 31: 'your witness to my knowledge would not be of much
avail.']

[Footnote 32: Paraphrase: 'for merely to know a man well, implies that
you yourself _know_.' To know a man well, you must know his knowledge: a
man, to judge