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Ham. Why, e'en so, and now my Lady

Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the maz-

zard with a sexton's spade. Here's fine revo-

lution, an we had the trick to see 't. Did these

bones cost no more the breeding but to play at

loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on 't.

A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,

For and a shrouding sheet;

O! a pit of clay for to be made

For such a guest is meet."

[Throws up another skull.]

Ham. There's another; why may not that be

the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities

now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his

tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now

to knock him about the sconce with a dirty

shovel, and will not tell him of his action of

battery? Hum! This fellow might be in 's time

a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his re-

cognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his

recoveries; is this the fine of his fines, and the

recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate

full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no

more of his purchases, and double ones too,

than the length and breadth of a pair of inden-

tures? The very conveyance of his lands will

hardly lie in this box, and must the inheritor

himself have no more, ha?

 97 chapless: lacking the lower jaw

mazzard: head

101 loggats; cf. n.

107 quiddities: subtleties

108 quillets: minute distinctions

tenures; cf. n.

110 sconce: head

111 action of battery; cf. n.

113 recognizances; cf. n.

statutes; cf. n.

115 fines; cf. n.

vouchers; cf. n.

116 recoveries; cf. n.

fine: end

119 indentures: mutual agreements

120 conveyance; cf. n.

