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Hamlet 1 CLOWN Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in,--he will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year. HAMLET Why he more than another? 1 CLOWN Why, sir, his hide is so tann’d with his trade that he will keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. Here’s a skull now; this skull hath lain in the earth three-and-twenty years. HAMLET Whose was it? 1 CLOWN A whoreson, mad fellow’s it was: whose do you think it was? HAMLET Nay, I know not. 1 CLOWN A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! ‘a pour’d a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick’s skull, the king’s jester. HAMLET This? 1 CLOWN E’en that. HAMLET Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kiss’d I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now, get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.--Pr’ythee, Horatio, tell me one thing. HORACIO 122 What’s that, my lord? Hamlet HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this fashion i’ the earth? HORACIO E’en so. HAMLET And smelt so? Pah! [Throws down the skull.] HORACIO E’en so, my lord. HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole? HORACIO ‘Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw! But soft! but soft! aside!--Here comes the king. [Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia, Laertes, and Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.] The queen, the courtiers: who is that they follow? And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken The corse they follow did with desperate hand Fordo it own life: ‘twas of some estate. Couch we awhile and mark. [Retiring with Horatio.] LAERTES What ceremony else? 123
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<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
1 CLOWN<br />
Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,--as we have many<br />
pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in,--he<br />
will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last<br />
you nine year.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Why he more than another?<br />
1 CLOWN<br />
Why, sir, his hide is so tann’d with his trade that he will<br />
keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of<br />
your whoreson dead body. Here’s a skull now; this skull hath lain<br />
in the earth three-and-twenty years.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Whose was it?<br />
1 CLOWN<br />
A whoreson, mad fellow’s it was: whose do you think it was?<br />
HAMLET<br />
Nay, I know not.<br />
1 CLOWN<br />
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! ‘a pour’d a flagon of<br />
Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick’s<br />
skull, the king’s jester.<br />
HAMLET<br />
This?<br />
1 CLOWN<br />
E’en that.<br />
HAMLET<br />
Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him,<br />
Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he<br />
hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred<br />
in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those<br />
lips that I have kiss’d I know not how oft. Where be your gibes<br />
now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that<br />
were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your<br />
own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now, get you to my lady’s<br />
chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this<br />
favour she must come; make her laugh at that.--Pr’ythee, Horatio,<br />
tell me one thing.<br />
HORACIO<br />
122<br />
What’s that, my lord?<br />
<strong>Hamlet</strong><br />
HAMLET<br />
Dost thou think Alexander looked o’ this fashion i’ the earth?<br />
HORACIO<br />
E’en so.<br />
HAMLET<br />
And smelt so? Pah!<br />
[Throws down the skull.]<br />
HORACIO<br />
E’en so, my lord.<br />
HAMLET<br />
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not<br />
imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it<br />
stopping a bung-hole?<br />
HORACIO<br />
‘Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.<br />
HAMLET<br />
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty<br />
enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died,<br />
Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is<br />
earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he<br />
was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?<br />
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,<br />
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.<br />
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe<br />
Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!<br />
But soft! but soft! aside!--Here comes the king.<br />
[Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia,<br />
Laertes, and Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.]<br />
The queen, the courtiers: who is that they follow?<br />
And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken<br />
The corse they follow did with desperate hand<br />
Fordo it own life: ‘twas of some estate.<br />
Couch we awhile and mark.<br />
[Retiring with Horatio.]<br />
LAERTES<br />
What ceremony else?<br />
123
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