33581983Ham. And why a tanner?

33591984Clowne Why his hide is so tanned with his trade,

1985That it will holde out water, that's a parlous

33611986Deuourer of your dead body, a great soaker.

1987Looke you, heres

a scull hath bin here this dozen yeare,

33341988Let me see, I euer since our last king Hamlet

33351989Slew Fortenbrasse in combat, yong Hamlets father,

33381990Hee that's mad.

33461991Ham. I mary, how came he madde?

33471992Clowne Ifaith very strangely, by loosing of his wittes.

33501993Ham. Vpon what ground?

33511994Clowne A this ground, in Denmarke.

3351.11995Ham. Where is he now?

33391996Clowne Why now they sent him to England.

33401997Ham. To England! wherefore?

33411998Clowne Why they say he shall haue his wittes there,

33421999Or if he haue not, t'is no great matter there,

33442000It will not be seene there.

33432001Ham. Why not there?

2002Clowne Why there they say the men are as mad as he.

33632003Ham. Whose scull was this?

33672004Clowne This, a plague on him, a madde rogues it was,

2005He powred once a whole flagon of Rhenish of my head,

33652006Why do not you know him? this was one Yorickes scull.

33702007Ham. Was this? I prethee let me see it, alas poore Yoricke

33722008I knew him Horatio,

33732009A fellow of infinite mirth, he hath caried mee twenty times

33742010vpon his backe, here hung those lippes that I haue Kissed a

33752011hundred times, and to see, now they abhorre me: Wheres

33772012your iests now Yoricke? your flashes of meriment: now go

33802013to my Ladies chamber, and bid her paint her selfe an inch

33812014thicke, to this she must come Yoricke. Horatio, I prethee

33832015tell me one thing, doost thou thinke that Alexander looked

33862016thus?

33872017Hor. Euen so my Lord.

33882018Ham. And smelt thus?

I Hor.