It must be, you're lying in it.
GRAVEDIGGER
And you're lying outside it. I don't lie in it, but it's
still mine.
HAMLET
You are lying in it if graves are for the dead and not the
living.
GRAVEDIGGER
It's a quick lie, sir--from me to you.
What man is this grave for?
GRAVEDIGGER
Not a man, sir.
HAMLET
What woman then?
GRAVEDIGGER
No woman either.
HAMLET
Who is to be buried in it?
GRAVEDIGGER
Someone who was a woman, sir; but rest her soul, she's dead.
HAMLET
(to Horatio)
How absolute the man is. We must be precise or equivocation
will be the ruin of us. By heavens Horatio, these last three
years I've noticed how the age has become so refined that the
commoners are hard on the heels of the courtiers. (To
Gravedigger.) How long have you lived by making graves?
GRAVEDIGGER
I started when our last King Hamlet defeated Fortinbras.
HAMLET
How long ago was that?
GRAVEDIGGER
Don't you know? Every fool knows that. It was the same day
young Hamlet was born. The prince who has grown mad and was
sent off to England.
HAMLET
Yes, of course. Why was he sent to England?
GRAVEDIGGER
Because he went mad. But he'll recover his wits there, and
if he doesn't, no one will know the difference anyway.
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