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.
Clown sings.
"A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, 102
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? 122
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.
