To smoke is to admire.
(Vide Hamlet, Act iii., Scene iv.)
St. Stephens’ Saturnalia, December 1884.
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The following Scene is taken from the Hamlet Travestie, a Burlesque in Two Acts, written by Mr. Francis Talfourd, and published by J. Vincent, Oxford, in 1849:—
Act II.
Scene I.—Room in Polonius’ House.
Enter Polonius and Ophelia.
Oph.—
O, dear Papa, I’ve been in such a fright!
Sewing just now a button on your night—