* So 4tos. When in your motion you are hot and dry, * the, 1623, (As make your bouts more violent to that end,) And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd 32. * preferr'd, 4tos. There with. * make, 4tos. him A chalice for the nonce; (65) whereon but sipping, noise? Enter Queen. How now, sweet queen? But stay, what QUEEN. One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow: Your sister's drown'd, Laertes. QUEEN. There is a willow grows ascaunt the That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; That liberal shepherds (7) give a grosser name, And, mermaid-like, a while they bore her up: • in your motion] Exercise, rapid evolutions, as just before: "Had neither motion, guard, nor eye. venom'd stuck] Thrust. See Tw. N. III. 4. Sir Tob. and M. W. of W. II. 1. Shall. с e snatches] Scraps. See "snatches, i. e. catches, of his voice." Cymb. IV. 2. Belar. and M. for M. IV. 2. Clown. As one incapable of her own distress,(68) Unto that element: (69) but long it could not be, LAER. Alas, then, she is drown'd? QUEEN. Drown'd, drown'd. LAER. Too much of water hast thou, poor And 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, [Exit. KING. [Exeunt. muddy death] Mudded is a term, which, when speaking of this species of death, he repeats in the Tempest, III. 3. Alon. and V. 1. Alon. our trick] Our course, or habit; a property that clings to, or makes a part of, us. с when these are gone, The woman will be out] When these tears are shed, this womanish passion will be over. ACT V. SCENE I. A Church Yard. Enter Two Clowns, with Spades, &c. 1 CLO. Is she to be buried in christian burial, that wilfully seeks her own salvation? 2 CLO. I tell thee, she is; therefore, make her grave straight: the crowner hath set on her, and finds it christian burial. 1 CLO. How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence? 2 CLO. Why, 'tis found so. 1 CLO. It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies the point: If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an act hath three *It is an act branches;* it is, to act, to do, and to perform: "" 1623, 32. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly. to doe, &c. 2 CLO. Nay, but hear you, goodman delver. 1 CLO. Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man; good: If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that: but if the water come make her grave straight] i. e. straightways, forthwith; the fact next stated being a warrant for proceeding, without any further question made. b It must be se offendendo] A confusion of things as well as of terms used for se defendendo, a finding of the jury in justifiable homicide. If the man go to this water,-it is, will he, nill he, he goes] Still floundering and confounding himself. He means to represent it as a wilful act, and of course without any mixture of nill or nolens in it. Had he gone, as stated, whether he would or not, it would not have been of his own accord, or his act. to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: Argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 CLO. But is this law? 1 CLO. Ay, marry is't; crowner's-quest" law. 2 CLO. Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of christian burial. b 1 CLO. Why, there thou say'st: And the more pity; that great folks shall have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even christian.(2) Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. 2 CLO. Was he a gentleman ? (3) 1 CLO. He was the first that ever bore arms. 2 CLO. Why, he had none. 1 CLO. What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the scripture? The scripture says, Adam digged; Could he dig without arms? I'll put another question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the purpose, confess thyself 2 CLO. Go to. 1 CLO. What is he, that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? 2 CLO. The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. 1 CLO. I like thy wit well, in good faith; the gallows does well: But how does it well? it does crowner's quest] Coroner's inquest. Why, there thou say'st] Say'st something, speak'st to the purpose. confess thyself] Admit, or by acknowledgment pass sentence upon, thyself, as a simpleton; pursuing the form and phrase of the common saying, "confess, and be hanged." well to those that do ill: now thou dost ill, to say, the gallows is built stronger than the church; argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again; come. 2 CLO. Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter? 1 CLO. Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.* 2 CLO. Marry, now I can tell. 1 CLO. To't. 2 CLO. Mass, I cannot tell. Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance. 1 Czo. Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating: and, when you are asked this question next, say, a grave-maker; the houses that he makes, lasts till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan, and fetch me a stoup of liquor. [Exit 2 Clown. 1 Clown digs, and sings. In youth, when I did love, did love, To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove HAM. Has this fellow no feeling of his business? he sings at grave-making. HOR. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. HAM. 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense." tell me that, and unyoke] Unravel this, and your day's work is done, your team you may then unharness. the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense] i. c. its palm less dulled or staled." I, 3. Polon. |