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ACT V SCENE I\ufffd<\/b> Setting:A churchyard.<\/b> Setting:\ufffd<\/b> Setting:\ufffdEnter two Clowns, with spades, &c.\ufffd<\/p>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nIs she to be buried in Christian burial that<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nwilfully seeks her own salvation?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nI tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nstraight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nChristian burial.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nHow can that be, unless she drowned herself in her<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nown defence?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, 'tis found so.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nIt must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhere lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nit argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nis, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nherself wittingly.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, but hear you, goodman delver,––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nGive me leave. Here lies the water; good: here<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nstands the man; good; if the man go to this water,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngoes,––mark you that; but if the water come to him<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthat is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nBut is this law?<\/td>\n\ufffd20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, marry, is't; crowner's quest law.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWill you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\na gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nChristian burial.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, there thou say'st: and the more pity that<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngreat folk should have countenance in this world to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndrown or hang themselves, more than their even<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nChristian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave–makers:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthey hold up Adam's profession.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWas he a gentleman?<\/td>\n\ufffd30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nHe was the first that ever bore arms.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, he had none.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nScripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncould he dig without arms? I'll put another<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\nquestion to thee: if thou answerest me not to the<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\npurpose, confess thyself––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nGo to.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is he that builds stronger than either the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nThe gallows–maker; for that frame outlives a<\/td>\n\ufffd40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthousand tenants.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nI like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndoes well; but how does it well? it does well to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthose that do in: now thou dost ill to say the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngallows is built stronger than the church: argal,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWho builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\na carpenter?'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, tell me that, and unyoke.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nMarry, now I can tell.<\/td>\n\ufffd50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nTo't.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSecond Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nMass, I cannot tell.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nCudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyou are asked this question next, say 'a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngrave–maker: 'the houses that he makes last till<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ndoomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nstoup of liquor.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit Second Clown<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHe\ufffddigs\ufffdand\ufffdsings<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nIn youth, when I did love, did love,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMethought it was very sweet,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, methought, there was nothing meet.<\/td>\n\ufffd61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHas this fellow no feeling of his business, that he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsings at grave–making?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nCustom hath made it in him a property of easiness.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nTis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe daintier sense.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut age, with his stealing steps,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHath claw'd me in his clutch,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd hath shipped me intil the land,<\/td>\n\ufffd69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs if I had never been such.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThrows up a skull.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThat skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhow the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCain's jaw–bone, that did the first murder! It<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmight be the pate of a politician, which this ass<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnow o'er–reaches; one that would circumvent God,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmight it not?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nIt might, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nOr of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbe my lord such–a–one, that praised my lord<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsuch–a–one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?<\/td>\n\ufffd80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nknocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhere's fine revolution, an we had the trick to<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsee't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nbut to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown: [Sings.]\ufffd<\/td>\nA pick–axe, and a spade, a spade,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor and a shrouding sheet:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, a pit of clay for to be made<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor such a guest is meet.<\/td>\n\ufffd90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThrows up another skull.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThere's another: why may not that be the skull of a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nlawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhis cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsuffer this rude knave now to knock him about the<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhis action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nin's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhis recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhis recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\npate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nno more of his purchases, and double ones too, than<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nvery conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthis box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nNot a jot more, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nIs not parchment made of sheepskins?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, my lord, and of calf–skins too.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThey are sheep and calves which seek out assurance<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nin that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngrave's this, sirrah?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nMine, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSings.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, a pit of clay for to be made<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor such a guest is meet.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nYou lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ntis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nTis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nyou.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat man dost thou dig it for?<\/td>\n\ufffd120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nFor no man, sir.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat woman, then?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nFor none, neither.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWho is to be buried in't?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nOne that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow absolute the knave is! we must speak by the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncard, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHoratio, these three years I have taken a note of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nit; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\npeasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngrave–maker?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nOf all the days i' the year, I came to't that day<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthat our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow long is that since?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nCannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nwas the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nis mad, and sent into England.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nAy, marry, why was he sent into England?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthere; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.<\/td>\n\ufffd141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nTwill, a not be seen in him there; there the men<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nare as mad as he.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow came he mad?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nVery strangely, they say.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow strangely?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nFaith, e'en with losing his wits.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nUpon what ground?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nand boy, thirty years.<\/td>\n\ufffd151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHow long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nI' faith, if he be not rotten before he die––as we<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhave many pocky corses now–a–days, that will scarce<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhold the laying in––he will last you some eight year<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nor nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy he more than another?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nhe will keep out water a great while; and your water<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nis a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHere's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthree and twenty years.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhose was it?<\/td>\n\ufffd162<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nA whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNay, I know not.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nA pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nflagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nsir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThis?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Clown\ufffd<\/td>\nE'en that.<\/td>\n\ufffd170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nLet me see.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTakes the skull.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAlas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nof infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nborne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nabhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nit. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnot how oft. Where be your gibes now? your<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ngambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthat were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnow, to mock your own grinning? quite chap–fallen.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNow get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nher paint an inch thick, to this favour she must<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ncome; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nme one thing.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat's that, my lord?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nDost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthe earth?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nE'en so.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd smelt so? pah!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nPuts down the skull.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nE'en so, my lord.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nTo what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nnot imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\ntill he find it stopping a bung–hole?<\/td>\n\ufffd191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nTwere to consider too curiously, to consider so.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nNo, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nmodesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nthus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAlexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nearth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nwas converted, might they not stop a beer–barrel?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nImperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMight stop a hole to keep the wind away.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nO, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShould patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBut soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nEnter Priest, the Corpse of OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, &c.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd with such maimed rites? This doth betoken<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe corse they follow did with desperate hand<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFordo its own life: 'twas of some estate.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCouch we awhile, and mark.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nRetiring with HORATIO.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat ceremony else?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThat is Laertes,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA very noble youth: mark.<\/td>\n\ufffd210<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat ceremony else?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Priest\ufffd<\/td>\nHer obsequies have been as far enlarged<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs we have warranty: her death was doubtful;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, but that great command o'ersways the order,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShe should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nShards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHer maiden strewments and the bringing home<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf bell and burial.<\/td>\n\ufffd220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nMust there no more be done?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFirst Priest\ufffd<\/td>\nNo more be done!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe should profane the service of the dead<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo sing a requiem and such rest to her<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAs to peace–parted souls.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nLay her i' the earth:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd from her fair and unpolluted flesh<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMay violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nA ministering angel shall my sister be,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen thou liest howling.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat, the fair Ophelia!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nSweets to the sweet: farewell!<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nScattering flowers.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;<\/td>\n\ufffd230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI thought thy bride–bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd not have strew'd thy grave.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nO, treble woe<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFall ten times treble on that cursed head,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nDeprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill I have caught her once more in mine arms:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLeaps into the grave.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nNow pile your dust upon the quick and dead,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill of this flat a mountain you have made,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nOf blue Olympus.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nAdvancing.\ufffdWhat is he whose grief<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nConjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLike wonder–wounded hearers? This is I,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHamlet the Dane.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLeaps into the grave.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLAERTES\ufffd<\/td>\nThe devil take thy soul!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGrappling with him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nThou pray'st not well.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nFor, though I am not splenitive and rash,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nYet have I something in me dangerous,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhich let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nPluck them asunder.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nHamlet, Hamlet!<\/td>\n\ufffd250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAll\ufffd<\/td>\nGentlemen,––<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHORATIO\ufffd<\/td>\nGood my lord, be quiet.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nWhy I will fight with him upon this theme<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nUntil my eyelids will no longer wag.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nO my son, what theme?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nI loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nCould not, with all their quantity of love,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMake up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nO, he is mad, Laertes.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nFor love of God, forbear him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nSwounds, show me what thou'lt do:<\/td>\n\ufffd260<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWoo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWoo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo outface me with leaping in her grave?<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nBe buried quick with her, and so will I:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMillions of acres on us, till our ground,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nSingeing his pate against the burning zone,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nMake Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI'll rant as well as thou.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQUEEN GERTRUDE\ufffd<\/td>\nThis is mere madness:<\/td>\n\ufffd270<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnd thus awhile the fit will work on him;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAnon, as patient as the female dove,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhen that her golden couplets are disclosed,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nHis silence will sit drooping.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nHAMLET\ufffd<\/td>\nHear you, sir;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWhat is the reason that you use me thus?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nI loved you ever: but it is no matter;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nLet Hercules himself do what he may,<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThe cat will mew and dog will have his day.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKING CLAUDIUS\ufffd<\/td>\nI pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExit HORATIO.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTo LAERTES.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nStrengthen your patience in our last night's speech;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nWe'll put the matter to the present push.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nGood Gertrude, set some watch over your son.<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nThis grave shall have a living monument:<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nAn hour of quiet shortly shall we see;<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nTill then, in patience our proceeding be.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\ufffd<\/td>\nExeunt<\/td>\n\ufffd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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