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should a man do but be merry? for, look you,
how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father
died within's two hours. 136
Oph. Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
Ham. So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear
black, for I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens!
die two months ago, and not forgotten yet?
Then there's hope a great man's memory may
outlive his life half a year; but, by 'r lady, he
must build churches then, or else shall he suffer
not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
epitaph is, 'For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is
forgot.' 146
Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters.
Enter a King and a Queen, very lovingly; the Queen embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck; lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's ears, and exit. The Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner, with some two or three Mutes, comes in again, seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but in the end accepts his love.
Exeunt.
Oph. What means this, my lord?
139 suit of sables: suit of rich fur
143 suffer not thinking on: be forgotten
144 hobby-horse: one of the participants in the morris dance; cf. n.
S. d. Hautboys: wooden double-reed instruments of high pitch
S. d. The dumb-show enters; cf. n.
S. d. Mutes: actors without speaking parts