Note to Hamlet, 3.2.246-247: "I could interpret between you and your / love, if I could see the puppets dallying."

I could interpret between you and your / love, if I could see the puppets dallying.: In a puppet show, the puppet master who spoke the dialogue was known as the "interpreter," and "dally" meant "to act or speak sportively, make sport, amuse oneself; to toy, play with, esp. in the way of amorous caresses; to flirt, wanton" (Oxford English Dictionary). Thus, Hamlet's joking comment insults Ophelia in several ways. It accuses her of having a lover with whom she engages in what we now (C.E. 2015) call "making out," "getting down," or "going there." It also portrays her as a child's doll (another meaning of the word "puppet") who (like a doll) is predictable and controlled by others.