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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:30:03 GMT
HAMLET
How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:30:18 GMT
First Clown
I' 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.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:30:44 GMT
HAMLET
Why he more than another?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:30:54 GMT
First Clown
Why, sir, his hide is so tanned 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 has lain in the earth
three and twenty years.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:31:04 GMT
HAMLET
Whose was it?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:31:16 GMT
First Clown
A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:31:28 GMT
HAMLET
Nay, I know not.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:31:55 GMT
First Clown
A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a
flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,
sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:32:05 GMT
HAMLET
This?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:32:15 GMT
First Clown
E'en that.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:32:30 GMT
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 rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed 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. Prithee, Horatio, tell
me one thing.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:32:40 GMT
HORATIO
What's that, my lord?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:32:50 GMT
HAMLET
Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'
the earth?
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:33:00 GMT
HORATIO
E'en so.
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Post by Jonny Fairplay on Dec 12, 2014 3:33:12 GMT
HAMLET
And smelt so? pah!
Puts down the skull
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