Therefore I forbid my tears: but yet / it is our trick; nature her custom holds, / Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, / The woman will be out. (Act IV, scene vii) When Laertes says these words after Ophelia's death, the word woman refers to

female weakness

the queen

female deviousness

his sister

Female Weakness is the answer to this question

I believe that the correct answer is the first option. In Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" (Act IV, scene VII) Laertes says his goodbye to Ophelia, after her death, and uses the word woman refers to female weakness (his crying). In these lines, Laertes promises that he would cry no more, as Ophelia had too much water already (she drowned) : "Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,/And therefore I forbid my tears."