Ham. There's another: why might not that bee the Scull of of a Lawyer? where be his [Sidenote: skull of a] Quiddits[7] now? his Quillets[7]? his Cases? his [Sidenote: quiddities] Tenures, and his Tricks? why doe's he suffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about the Sconce[8] [Sidenote: this madde knaue] with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his Action of Battery? hum. This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of Land, with his Statutes, his Recognizances, his Fines, his double
[Footnote 1: To feel the full force of this, we must call up the expression on the face of 'such a one' as he begged the horse—probably imitated by Hamlet—and contrast it with the look on the face of the skull.]
[Footnote 2: 'now the property of my Lady Worm.']
[Footnote 3: the lower jaw gone.]
[Footnote 4: the upper jaw, I think—not the head.]
[Footnote 5: a game in which pins of wood, called loggats, nearly two feet long, were half thrown, half slid, towards a bowl. Blount: Johnson and Steevens.]
[Footnote 6: Not in Quarto.]
[Footnote 7: a lawyer's quirks and quibbles. See Johnson and Steevens.
1st Q.
now where is your
Quirkes and quillets now,]