There is the question of why F1 has ''dilated.''  It might reveal the Folio editor's knowledge of this passage, and so, it might be his intentional work, to try to ensure the King-ambassador miscommunication was discernible by the reader.  I don't think so.  The Folio doesn't give the impression that the editor knew that much about what he was doing.  If the Folio editor knew that much about the play he surely would not have killed Claudius at the beginning of Scene 12.  I think ''dilated'' was printed in the Folio just because the Folio editor, like Cornelius and Voltemand, didn't know the word ''delated'' and thought it was ''dilated.''  Irony, thy name is legion.

There is the question of why F1 has ''dilated.''  It might reveal the Folio editor's knowledge of this passage, and so, it might be his intentional work, to try to ensure the King-ambassador miscommunication was discernible by the reader.  I don't think so.  The Folio doesn't give the impression that the editor knew that much about what he was doing.  If the Folio editor knew that much about the play he surely would not have killed Claudius at the beginning of Scene 12.  I think ''dilated'' was printed in the Folio just because the Folio editor, like Cornelius and Voltemand, didn't know the word ''delated'' and thought it was ''dilated.''  Irony, thy name is legion.