Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ham. lexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole.
Hor. Hor.
Hor. 'Twere to consider: to curiously to consider so.
Ham. Ham.
Ham. No faith, not a iot. But to follow him thether
Ham. with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus.
Ham. Alexander died: Alexander was buried: Alexander re
Ham. turneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make
Ham. Lome, and why of that Lome (whereto he was conuer
Ham. ted) might they not stopp a Beere‑barrell?
Ham. Imperiall Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Ham. Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away.
Ham. Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Ham. Should patch a Wall, t'expell the winters flaw.
Ham. But soft, but soft, aside; heere comes the King.
Ham. Enter King, Queen, Laertes, and a Coffin,
Ham. with Lords attendant.
Ham. The Queene, the Courtiers. Who is that they follow,
Ham. And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken,
Ham. The Coarse they follow, did with disperate hand,