Page 344 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the
carpenter?
OTHER
The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
GRAVE.
I like thy wit well in good faith, the gallows [45] does well. But how does it
well? If does well to those that do ill. Now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is
built stronger than the church; argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To’t
again, come.
OTHER
Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, [50] or a carpenter?
GRAVE.
Ay, tell me that and unyoke.
OTHER
Marry, now I can tell.
GRAVE.
To’t.
OTHER
Mass, I cannot tell. [55]
GRAVE.
Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace
with beating. And when you are asked this question next, say ‘A gravemaker’.
The houses he makes lasts till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me
a stoup of liquor. [60]
[Exit the Other Clown. The Grave-digger continues digging.]
[Sings] In youth when I did love, did love,
Methought it was very sweet:
To contract − O − the time for − a my behove,
O methought there − a − was nothing − a −
