[Footnote IV.28: _You may wear your rue with a difference._] _i.e._, to distinguish it from that worn by Ophelia, herself: because her tears flowed from the loss of a father--those of the Queen ought to flow for her guilt.]
[Footnote IV.29: _There's a daisy:_] A daisy signified a warning to young women, not to trust the fair promises of their lovers.]
[Footnote IV.30: _I would give you some violets_,] Violets signified faithfulness.]
[Footnote IV.31: _For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy,--_] Part of an old song.]
[Footnote IV.32: _Thought and affliction_,] Thought here, as in many other places, means melancholy.]
[Footnote IV.33: _I must commune with your grief_,] _i.e._, confer, discuss, or argue with.]
[Footnote IV.34: _No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones_,] Not only the sword, but the helmet, gauntlet, spurs, and tabard, (_i.e._, a coat whereon the armorial ensigns were anciently depicted, from whence the term _coat_ of armour), are hung over the grave of every knight.]
[Footnote IV.35: _Cry to be heard_,] All these multiplied incitements are things which cry, &c.]
[Footnote IV.36: _Let the great axe fall._] _i.e._, the axe that is to be laid to the root.]
[Footnote IV.37: _Naked on your kingdom_,] _i.e._, unprovided and defenceless.]
[Footnote IV.38: _'Tis Hamlet's character_,] Peculiar mode of shaping his letters.]
[Footnote IV.39: _Made confession of_] Acknowledged.]
[Footnote IV.40: _In your defence_,] _i.e._, "in your art and science of defence."]
[Footnote IV.41: _He, being remiss_,] _i.e._, unsuspicious, not cautious.]
[Footnote IV.42: _Peruse the foils_;] Closely inspect them.]
[Footnote IV.43: _A sword unbated_,] Not blunted, as foils are by a button fixed to the end.]
[Footnote IV.44: _In a pass of practice_,] This probably means some favourite pass, some trick of fencing, with which Hamlet was inexperienced, and by which Laertes may be sure of success.]
[Footnote IV.45: _No cataplasm_,] _i.e._, poultice--a healing application.]
[Footnote IV.46: _Collected from all simples_,] _i.e._, from all ingredients in medicine.]
[Footnote IV.47: _On your cunnings_,] _i.e._, on your dexterity.]
[Footnote IV.48: _In your motion_] Exercise, rapid evolutions.]
[Footnote IV.49: _For the nonce_;] _i.e._, present purpose or design.]