-eth - an archaic inflectional suffix (attached to a verb), wilt - archaic form of verb 'will', Denotation of 'mark' in "Mark me." - Listen to, Denotation of 'my hour is almost come' - 'time is almost up', an archaic idiom expressed with a possessive pronoun, Denotation of 'my days of nature' - My lifetime, 'thy two eyes, like stars' - A simile (to say something is LIKE something else) with poetic function, 'list' in "List, Hamlet, oh list." - Shortening of 'listen' - has a conative function, 'If thou didst ever thy dear father love' - Sentence structure places object of sentence (thy dear father) BEFORE the verb (love), 'Haste me to know it' - Archaic use of verb 'haste' - denotation has since narrowed slightly, 'so the whole ear of Denmark is... rankly abused' - Metaphor suggesting that the ear of the whole population has been poisoned (like the King was), 'forgèd process' - Narrowing of denotation of forged (now mostly refers to metal work), 'seeming' in 'my most seeming virtuous queen' - Adverb - in Modern English adds the suffix -ly to make it 'seemingly',

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