Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death,
That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point
With this contagion; that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.

King. Let's further think of this :-
We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings;
When in your motion you are hot and dry,
(As make your bouts more violent to that end,)
And that he calls for drink, I'll have preferr'd him
A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,

Our purpose may hold there. --But stay, what noise ?

Enter QUEEN.

Queen. One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow :- Your sister's drown'd, Laertes. Laer. Drown'd! O, where?

Queen. There is a willow grows ascaunt the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples;
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies, and herself,
Fell in the weeping brook.

Laer. I forbid my tears: But yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will.

Adieu, my lord !

I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
But that this folly drowns it.

[Erit LAERTES.

King. How much I had to do to calm his rage! Now fear I, this will give it start again. [Exeunt.

ACT THE FIFTH.

SCENE I.

A Churchyard.

Enter two GRAVEDIGGERS.

1. Graved. Is she to be buried in christian burial, that wilfully seeks her own salvation?

2 Graved. I tell thee, she is; therefore, make her grave straight: the crowner hath set on her, and finds it christian burial.

1 Graved. How can that be, unless she drown'd herself in her own defence?

2 Graved. Why, 'tis found so.

1 Graved. 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 branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.

2 Graved. Nay, but hear you, goodman delver;1 Graved. 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 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 Graved. But is this law?

1 Graved. Ay, marry is't; crowner's-quest law. 2 Graved. Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been bury'd out of christian burial.

1 Graved. Why, there thou say'st: And the more pity, that great folks should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even christian. Come; my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers; they hold up Adam's profession.

2 Graved. Was he a gentleman?

1 Graved. He was the first that ever bore arms, I'll put a question to thee: if thou answer'st me not to the purpose, confess thyself

2 Graved. Go to.

1 Graved. What is he, that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter ? 2 Graved. The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.

1 Graved. I like thy wit well, in good faith; the gallows does well: But how does it well? it does 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 Graved. Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?

1 Graved. Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.

2 Graved. Marry, now I can tell. 1 Graved. To't.

2 Graved. Mass, I cannot tell.

Enter HAMLET and Horatio, at a Distance.

1 Graved. Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. and, when you are ask'd this question next, say, a grave-maker; the houses, that he makes, last till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan, and fetch me a stoup of liquor. [Exit SECOND GRAVEDIGGER.