_1st Q._

now where is your
Quirkes and quillets now,]

[Footnote 8: Humorous, or slang word for _the head_. 'A fort--a
head-piece--the head': _Webster's Dict_.]

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Vouchers, his Recoueries: [1] Is this the fine[2] of his
Fines, and the recouery[3] of his Recoueries,[1] to haue
his fine[4] Pate full of fine[4] Dirt? will his Vouchers
[Sidenote: will vouchers]
vouch him no more of his Purchases, and double
[Sidenote: purchases & doubles then]
ones too, then the length and breadth of a paire of
Indentures? the very Conueyances of his Lands
will hardly lye in this Boxe[5]; and must the Inheritor
[Sidenote: scarcely iye; | th']
himselfe haue no more?[6] ha?

_Hor_. Not a iot more, my Lord.

_Ham_. Is not Parchment made of Sheep-skinnes?

_Hor_. I my Lord, and of Calue-skinnes too.
[Sidenote: Calues-skinnes to]

_Ham_. They are Sheepe and Calues that seek [Sidenote: which seek]
out assurance in that. I will speake to this fellow:
whose Graue's this Sir? [Sidenote: this sirra?]

_Clo_. Mine Sir: [Sidenote: _Clow_. Mine sir, or a pit]

_O a Pit of Clay for to be made,
for such a Guest is meete._[7]

_Ham_. I thinke it be thine indeed: for thou
liest in't.

_Clo_. You lye out on't Sir, and therefore it is not [Sidenote: tis]
yours: for my part, I doe not lye in't; and yet it [Sidenote: in't, yet]
is mine.

_Ham_. Thou dost lye in't, to be in't and say 'tis [Sidenote: it is]
thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quicke, therefore
thou lyest.

_Clo_. Tis a quicke lye Sir, 'twill away againe
from me to you.[8]

_Ham_. What man dost thou digge it for?

_Clo_. For no man Sir.

_Ham_. What woman then?

_Clo_. For none neither.

_Ham_. Who is to be buried in't?

_Clo_. One that was a woman Sir; but rest her
Soule, shee's dead.

[Footnote 1: _From_ 'Is' _to_ 'Recoueries' _not in Q._]

[Footnote 2: the end.]

[Footnote 3: the property regained by his Recoveries.]

[Footnote 4: third and fourth meanings of the word _fine_.]

[Footnote 5: the skull.]

[Footnote 6: 'must the heir have no more either?'

_1st Q_.

and must
The honor (_owner?_) lie there?]

[Footnote 7: _This line not in Q._]

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