I will a tale unfold will make him jump!
[Sits down resolutely to wait for Horatio.
Scene II.—Before the New Wing of the Castle. The two Clowns, formerly grave-diggers but now employed with equal appropriateness as builders, are working on the structure in the extremely leisurely fashion to be expected of artizans who are not members of a Trades Union.
1st Clown.
[In his best Elizabethan manner.] Nay, but hear you, goodman builder——
2nd Clown.
[In homely vernacular.] Look here, Bill, you can drop that jargon. There’s no one here but ourselves, and I ain’t amused by it. It’s all very well to try it on when there’s gentlefolk about, but when we’re alone you take a rest.
1st Clown.
[Puzzled.] Ay, marry!