3212Other. Will you ha the truth on't: if this had not

3213beene a Gentlewoman, shee should haue beene buried

3214out of Christian Buriall.

3215Clo. Why there thou say'st. And the more pitty that

3216great folke should haue countenance in this world to

3217drowne or hang themselues, more then their euen Christi-

3218an. Come, my Spade; there is no ancient Gentlemen,

3219but Gardiners, Ditchers and Graue-makers; they hold vp

3220Adams Profession.

3221Other. Was he a Gentleman?

3222Clo. He was the first that euer bore Armes.

3223Other. Why he had none.

3224Clo. What, ar't a Heathen? how dost thou vnder-

3225stand the Scripture? the Scripture sayes Adam dig'd;

3226could hee digge without Armes? Ile put another que-

3227stion to thee; if thou answerest me not to the purpose, con-

3228fesse thy selfe---

3229Other. Go too.

3230Clo. What is he that builds stronger then either the

3231Mason, the Shipwright, or the Carpenter?

3232Other. The Gallowes maker; for that Frame outliues a

3233thousand Tenants.

3234Clo. I like thy wit well in good faith, the Gallowes

3235does well; but how does it well? it does well to those

3236that doe ill: now, thou dost ill to say the Gallowes is

3237built stronger then the Church: Argall, the Gallowes

3238may doe well to thee. Too't againe, Come.

3239Other. Who builds stronger then a Mason, a Ship-

3240wright, or a Carpenter?

3241Clo. I, tell me that, and vnyoake.

3242Other. Marry, now I can tell.

3243Clo. Too't.

3244Other. Masse, I cannot tell.

3246Clo. Cudgell thy braines no more about it; for your

3247dull Asse will not mend his pace with beating; and when

3248you are ask't this question next, say a Graue-maker: the

3249Houses that he makes, lasts till Doomesday: go, get thee

3250to Yaughan, fetch me a stoupe of Liquor.

3256Ham. Ha's this fellow no feeling of his businesse, that

3257he sings at Graue-making?

3258Hor. Custome hath made it in him a property of ea-

3259sinesse.

3260Ham. 'Tis ee'n so; the hand of little Imployment hath

3261the daintier sense.

3267Ham. That Scull had a tongue in it, and could sing

3268once: how the knaue iowles it to th' grownd, as if it

3269were Caines Iaw-bone, that did the first murther: It

3270might be the Pate of a Polititian which this Asse o're Of-

3271fices: one that could circumuent God, might it not?

3272Hor. It might, my Lord.

3273Ham. Or of a Courtier, which could say, Good Mor-

3274row sweet Lord: how dost thou, good Lord? this

3275might be my Lord such a one, that prais'd my Lord such

3276a ones Horse, when he meant to begge it; might it not?

3277Hor. I, my Lord.

3278Ham. Why ee'n so: and now my Lady Wormes,

3279Chaplesse, and knockt about the Mazard with a Sextons

3280Spade; heere's fine Reuolution, if wee had the tricke to

3281see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but

3282to play at Loggets with 'em? mine ake to thinke

3283on't.

3289Ham. There's another: why might not that bee the

3290Scull of a Lawyer? where be his Quiddits now? his

3291Quillets? his Cases? his Tenures, and his Tricks? why

3292doe's he suffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about

3293the Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of

3294his Action of Battery? hum. This fellow might be in's

3295time a great buyer of Land, with his Statutes, his Recog-

3296nizances, his Fines, his double Vouchers, his Recoueries:

3297Is this the fine of his Fines, and the recouery of his Reco-

3298ueries, to haue his fine Pate full of fine Dirt? will his

3299Vouchers vouch him no more of his Purchases, and dou-

3300ble ones too, then the length and breadth of a paire of

3301Indentures? the very Conueyances of his Lands will

3302hardly lye in this Boxe; and must the Inheritor himselfe

3303haue no more? ha?

3304Hor. Not a iot more, my Lord.

3305Ham. Is not Parchment made of Sheep-skinnes?

3306Hor. I my Lord, and of Calue-skinnes too.

3307Ham. They are Sheepe and Calues that seek out assu-

3308rance in that. I will speake to this fellow: whose Graue's

3309this Sir?

3310Clo. Mine Sir:

3313Ham. I thinke it be thine indeed: for thou liest in't.

3314Clo. You lye out on't Sir, and therefore it is not yours:

3315for my part, I doe not lye in't; and yet it is mine.

3316Ham. Thou dost lye in't, to be in't and say 'tis thine:

3317'tis for the dead, not for the quicke, therefore thou

3318lyest.

3319Clo. 'Tis a quicke lye Sir, 'twill away againe from me

3320to you.

3321Ham. What man dost thou digge it for?

3322Clo. For no man Sir.

3323Ham. What woman then?

3324Clo. For none neither.

3325Ham. Who is to be buried in't?

3326Clo. One that was a woman Sir; but rest her Soule,

3327shee's dead.

3328Ham. How absolute the knaue is? wee must speake

3329by the Carde, or equiuocation will vndoe vs: by the

3330Lord Horatio, these three yeares I haue taken note of it,

3331the Age is growne so picked, that the toe of the Pesant

3332comes so neere the heeles of our Courtier, hee galls his

3333Kibe. How long hast thou been a Graue-maker?

3334Clo. Of all the dayes i'th' yeare, I came too't that day

3335that our last King Hamlet o'recame Fortinbras.

3336Ham. How long is that since?

3337Clo. Cannot you tell that? euery foole can tell that:

3338It was the very day, that young Hamlet was borne, hee

3339that was mad, and sent into England.

3340Ham. I marry, why was he sent into England?

3341Clo. Why, because he was mad; hee shall recouer his

3342wits there; or if he do not, it's no great matter there.