"'HAM—A—LETTE.'
By
Will—y—am Shak—es—peare."
"'HAM—A—LETTE.'
By
Will—y—am Shak—es—peare."
"I suppose this is all right," thought the young clerk, a little dismayed at the fierce and sectional enunciation.
Then the reader came to Act I, Sc. 2, which the old actor (to leave the Kemble reading for a minute), with but a hazy notion of the text, used to begin:
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....
"Although of Hamlet, our dear brother's death,
The memory be—memory be—(What is the color?) green"....