Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ham. Vpon what ground?
Clo. Clo.
Clo. Why heere in Denmarke: I haue bin sixeteene
Clo. heere, man and Boy thirty yeares.
Ham. Ham.
Ham. How long will a man lie'ith'earth ere he rot?
Clo. Ifaith, if he be not rotten before he die (as we haue
Clo. many pocky Coarses now adaies, that will scarce hold
Clo. the laying in) he will last you some eight yeare, or nine
Clo. yeare. A Tanner will last you nine year e.
Ham. Why he, more then another?
Clo. Why sir, his hide is so tan'd with his Trade, that
Clo. he will keepe out water a great while. And your water,
Clo. is a sore Decayer of your horson dead body. Heres a Scull
Clo. now: this Scul, has laine in the earth three & twenty years.
Ham. Whose was it?