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Ham. Why e'en fo; and now my lady Worm's; chaplefs, and knock'd about the mazzard with a fexton's fpade. Here's fine revolution; if we had the trick to fee 't. Did these bones coft no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ake to think on't.

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Ham. There's another. Why 8 may not that be the fcull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cafes, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he fuffer this i mad knave now to knock him about the fconce with a dirty fhovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? Hum! this fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his ftatutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of

make use of bones inftead of wooden pins, throwing at them with another

a R. reads now 'tis my lady, &c. Qu's, choples. The Ift q. reads massene; the 2d and bone inftead of bowling. H. The qu's 3d, mazer. read loggits; the ift, 2d and 3d fo's, log

d P.'s duodecimo, T. W. and J. read, gets; the 4th f. R. and P. loggers. Here's a fine, &c.

g The fo's and R. read, might not,

e The qu's read, and we had, &c. &c. C. and we bad, c.

f Loggats is the ancient name of a play or game, which is one among the unlawful games enumerated in the stat, 33 H.VIII. It is the fame which is now called Kittle-pins, in which boys often

h So the qu's and C; all the reft read quiddits and quillets.

i So the qu's; all the reft read rude for mad.

k The 3d q. reads actions.
1 This in italic is not in the qu's.

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fine dirt? m Will vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases and doubles, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will fcarcely lie in this box; and muft the inheritor himself have no more? ha?

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Hor. Not a jot more, my lord.

Ham. Is not parchment made of fheep-skins?
Hor. Ay, my lord, and of calves-fkins too.

Ham. They are fheep and calves which feek out affurance in that. I will fpeak to this fellow. Whofe grave's this, firrah?

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Ham. I think," it be thine indeed, for thou lieft in 't. Clown. You lie out on 't, fir, and therefore 'tis not yours; for my part, I do not lie in't, yet it is mine.

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Ham. Thou doft lie in't, to be in't and fay it is thine; 'tis for the dead, not for the quick, therefore thou lieft. Clown. 'Tis a quick lie, fir, 'twill away again from me

to you.

So the qu's; the reft read Will his vouchers, &c.

n So the qu's; the reft read and dou- C. ble ones too, &c.

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The qu's read, Or.

• This line is omitted in the qu's and

t R. and P. read Ghost for guest. Spi

• So the qu's; the reft read bardly rits are not buried. for Scarcely.

P So the qu's and C; the reft read

that for which.

9 The fo's and R, read f

u The 3d q. reads, it's thine, &c.

w Fo's and R. and yet, &c.

x The 3d q. omits away; S. take no notice of this omiffion.

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Ham. What man doft thou dig it for?

Clown. For no man, fir.

Ham. What woman then?

Clown. For none neither.

Ham. Who is to be buried in 't?

Clown. One that was a woman, fir; but, reft her foul, fhe's dead.

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Ham. How abfolute the knave is! We muft fpeak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years have taken note of it, the age is grown fo picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. How long haft been a grave-maker?

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Clown. Of all the days i'th' year, I came to't that day that our laft king Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.

Ham. How long is that fince?

Clown. Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that. It was that very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and fent into England.

Ham. Ay, marry, why was he fent into England?

Clown. Why, because he was mad: he fhall recover his wits there; or if he do not, 'tis no great matter there. Ham. Why?

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Clown. "Twill not be feen in him there; there the

men are as mad as he.

Ham. How came he mad?

Clown. Very ftrangely, they fay.

Ham. How ftrangely?

Clown. 'Faith, e'en with lofing his wits.

Ham. Upon what ground?

Clown. Why, here in Denmark. I have been m fexton

here, man and boy, thirty years.

Ham. How long will a man lie i'th' earth ere he rot?

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Clown. 'Faith, if he be not rotten before he die, as we have many pocky coarses P now-a-days that will scarce. hold the laying in, he will laft you fome eight year, or nine year; a tanner will last you nine q year.

Ham. Why he more than another?

Clown. Why, fir, his hide is fo tann'd with his trade, that he will keep out water a great while and your water is a fore decayer of your whorefon dead body. Here's a fcull now hath lyen you i'th' earth" three and twenty

years.

Ham. Whofe was it?

Clown. A whorefon mad fellow's it was.

think it was?

Ham. Nay, I know not.

Whofe do you

Clown. A peftilence on him for a mad rogue! he pour'd

k All but the qu's and C. cmit this firft there.

1 The 2d q. reads, there the are men as mad, &c. the 3d, there are men as mad,

The 1ft f. reads fixteen.

years.

9 So the qu's and 1ft f; the reft,

The 3d and 4th fo's and R. omit

fo.

After now the fo's and R. read,

n So the qu's and C; the reft, I' faith. this feull, &c. • Qu's, a for be.

P The qu's mit now-a-days.

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All but the qu's and C. omit yox. The qu's read in figures, 23 years, a flaggon

a flaggon of rhenish on my head once. This fame fcull, fir, was Sir Yorick's fcull, the king's jefter.

Ham. This?

Clown. E'en that.

Ham. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jeft; of moft excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times: and now how abhorred

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in my imagination it is ! my gorge rifes at it. Here hung thofe lips, that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols, your fongs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table roar? Not one now to mock your own chap-fallen! Now get you to my lady's

on a grinning, quite

table; and tell

her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour fhe muft come; make her laugh at that.-Pr'ythee, Horatio, tell me one thing.

Hor. What's that, my lord?

Ham. Doft thou think Alexander look'd o' this fashion ith' earth?

Hor. E'en fo.

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Ham. And finelt fo? * pah!

1[Smelling to the skull.

▾ This same scull, fir, is repeated in reft, except C. the fo's and R.

Here all but the qu's omit fir. y Before alas, the fo's and R. read Let me fee.

z Qu's, bore.

The fo's and R. omit nozu.
The fo's and R. omit in.
The fo's and R. omit it.

After is R. inferts now. § P. alters on to in; followed by the

f The fo's and R. read No one, &c. g The fo's and R. read jeering for grinning.

h Table, i. e. dreffing-table. So the qu's; all the reft read chamber.

i S. reads beart for earth; and gives no other reading.

* So the qu's and C; all the reft, fub !

1 This direction is R's.

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