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