HAMLET’S AGE.
Shakspeare’s Hamlet was thirty years old, as is indicated by the text in Act. V. Sc. 1:—
Ham. How long hast thou been a grave-maker?
1 Clo. Of all the days i’ the year, I came to’t that day that our last King Hamlet o’ercame Fortinbras.
Ham. How long is that since?
1 Clo. Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that: it was the very day that young Hamlet was born: he that is mad and sent into England.
Ham. Upon what ground?
1 Clo. Why, here in Denmark. I have been sexton here, man and boy thirty years.