经典话剧剧本《Hamlet哈姆雷特ACT5》英文完整版(6)

　　Faith, e'en with losing his wits.

　　HAMLET

　　Upon what ground?

　　First Clown

　　Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man

　　and boy, thirty years.

　　HAMLET

　　How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?

　　First Clown

　　I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we

　　have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce

　　hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year

　　or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.

　　HAMLET

　　Why he more than another?

　　First Clown

　　Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that

　　he will keep out water a great while; and your water

　　is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.

　　Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth

　　three and twenty years.

　　HAMLET

　　Whose was it?

　　First Clown

　　A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?

　　HAMLET

　　Nay, I know not.

　　First Clown

　　A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a

　　flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,

　　sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.

　　HAMLET

　　This?

　　First Clown

　　E'en that.

　　HAMLET

　　Let me see.

　　Takes the skull

　　Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow

　　of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath

　　borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how

　　abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at

　　it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know

　　not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your

　　gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,

　　that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one