[22] Fabliaux ou contes, tom. iv. p. 215.
[HAMLET.]
ACT I.
Scene 1. Page 9.
Mar. Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio.
The reason why the common people believed that ghosts were only to be addressed by scholars seems to have been, that the exorcisms of troublesome spirits were usually performed in Latin.
Scene 1. Page 21.
Hor. The cock that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the God of day; and at his warning,
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.