[Sidenote: murder, this might]
this Asse o're Offices: one that could circumuent
[Sidenote: asse now ore-reaches; one that would]
God, might it not?

_Hor_. It might, my Lord.

_Ham_. Or of a Courtier, which could say, Good
Morrow sweet Lord: how dost thou, good Lord?
[Sidenote: thou sweet lord?]
this might be my Lord such a one, that prais'd my
Lord such a ones Horse, when he meant to begge
[Sidenote: when a went to]
it; might it not?[1]

_Hor_. I, my Lord.

_Ham_. Why ee'n so: and now my Lady
Wormes,[2] Chaplesse,[3] and knockt about the Mazard[4]
[Sidenote: Choples | the massene with]
with a Sextons Spade; heere's fine Reuolution, if
[Sidenote: and we had]
wee had the tricke to see't. Did these bones cost
no more the breeding, but to play at Loggets[5] with
'em? mine ake to thinke on't. [Sidenote: them]

_Clowne sings._[6]

_A Pickhaxe and a Spade, a Spade_, [Sidenote: _Clow. Song._]
_for and a shrowding-Sheete:
O a Pit of Clay for to be made,
for such a Guest is meete_.

_Ham_. There's another: why might not that
bee the Scull of of a Lawyer? where be his [Sidenote: skull of a]
Quiddits[7] now? his Quillets[7]? his Cases? his [Sidenote: quiddities]
Tenures, and his Tricks? why doe's he suffer this
rude knaue now to knocke him about the Sconce[8]
[Sidenote: this madde knaue]
with a dirty Shouell, 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 Recognizances, his Fines, his double

[Footnote 1: To feel the full force of this, we must call up the
expression on the face of 'such a one' as he begged the horse--probably
imitated by Hamlet--and contrast it with the look on the face of the
skull.]

[Footnote 2: 'now the property of my Lady Worm.']

[Footnote 3: the lower jaw gone.]

[Footnote 4: _the upper jaw_, I think--not _the head_.]

[Footnote 5: a game in which pins of wood, called loggats, nearly two
feet long, were half thrown, half slid, towards a bowl. _Blount_:
Johnson and Steevens.]

[Footnote 6: _Not in Quarto._]

[Footnote 7: a lawyer's quirks and quibbles. See _Johnson and Steevens_.