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should a man do but be merry? for, look you,

how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father

died within's two hours.

Oph. Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.

Ham. So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear

black, for I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens!

die two months ago, and not forgotten yet?

Then there's hope a great man's memory may

outlive his life half a year; but, by 'r lady, he

must build churches then, or else shall he suffer

not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose

epitaph is, 'For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is

forgot.'

''Enter a King and a Queen, very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck; lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love''.

Exeunt.

Oph. What means this, my lord?

 139 suit of sables: suit of rich fur

143 suffer not thinking on: be forgotten

144 hobby-horse: one of the participants in the morris dance; cf. n.

S. d. Hautboys: wooden double-reed instruments of high pitch

S. d. The dumb-show enters; cf. n.

S. d. Mutes: actors without speaking parts

