_Queen._ (C.) One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow: Your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
_Queen._ There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; Therewith fantastick garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples;[51] There, on the pendent boughs her cornet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies, and herself, Fell in the weeping brook.
_Laer._ I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick:[52] nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out.[53] Adieu, my lord: I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.[54]
[Footnote IV.1: _Translate:_] Interpret.]
[Footnote IV.2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered, brainsick mood.]
[Footnote IV.3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence._] When an offender is popular, the people never consider what his crime was, but they scrutinise his punishment.]
[Footnote IV.4: _Politick worms_] _i.e._, artful, cunning worms.]
[Footnote IV.5: _The wind at help_,] _i.e._, ready.]
[Footnote IV.6: _May'st not coldly set_] Set is to value or estimate. "Thou may'st not _set little by it_, or _estimate it lightly_."]
[Footnote IV.7: _Our sovereign process:_] _i.e._, our royal design.]
[Footnote IV.8: _By letters conjuring to that effect_,] The verb to conjure, in the sense of to supplicate, was formerly accented on the first syllable.]
[Footnote IV.9: _Howe'er my haps_,] Chances of fortune.]
[Footnote IV.10: _His sandal shoon._] Shoon is the old plural of shoe. The verse is descriptive of a pilgrim. While this kind of devotion was in favour, love intrigues were carried on under that mask.]
[Footnote IV.11: _Larded with sweet flowers_;] _i.e._, Garnished with sweet flowers.]
[Footnote IV.12: _Heaven 'ield you._] Requite; yield you recompence.]
[Footnote IV.13: _The owl was a baker's daughter._] This is in reference to a story that was once prevalent among the common people of Gloucestershire.]
[Footnote IV.14: _Conceit upon her father._] Fancies respecting her father.]
[Footnote IV.15: _Don'd and dupp'd_] _To don_, is to _do on_, or _put on_, as _doff_ is to _do off_, or _put off_. To _dupp_ is to _do up_, or _lift up_ the latch.]