Prince Hamlet Shakespeare's work act v scene i

HAMLET 

Why, e’en so, and now my Lady Worm’s, chopless, and knock’d about the mazzard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, and we had the trick to see’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with them? Mine ache to think on’t. FIRST CLOWN (GRAVEDIGGER) Song. “A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.” Throws up another skull. HAMLET There’s another. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this mad knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, 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 statutes, 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 fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box, and must th’ inheritor himself have no more, ha? HORATIO Not a jot more, my lord. HAMLET Is not parchment made of sheep-skins? HORATIO Ay, my lord, and of calves’-skins too. HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose grave’s this, sirrah? FIRST CLOWN (GRAVEDIGGER) Mine, sir. Sings. “O, a pit of clay for to be made. For such a guest is meet.” HAMLET I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in’t. FIRST CLOWN (GRAVEDIGGER) You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore ’tis not yours; for my part, I do not lie in’t, yet it is mine. HAMLET Thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say it is thine. ’Tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. Who is to be buried in’t? FIRST 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, sir, Yorick’s skull, the King’s jester. 

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