_First Clo._ What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? 40 _Sec. Clo._ The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a[1986] thousand tenants. _First Clo._ I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows does well; but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill: now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger 45 than the church: argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come. _Sec. Clo._ 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?'[1987] _First Clo._ Ay, tell me that, and unyoke. 50 _Sec. Clo._ Marry, now I can tell. _First Clo._ To't. _Sec. Clo._ Mass, I cannot tell. _Enter_ HAMLET _and_ HORATIO, _afar off_.[1988] _First Clo._ Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating, and when 55 you are asked this question next, say 'a grave-maker:' the houses that he makes last till doomsday. Go, get thee to[1989][1990] Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of liquor. [_Exit Sec. Clown._[1990][1991] [_He digs, and sings._ In youth, when I did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet, 60 To contract, O, the time, for-a my behove,[1992] O, methought, there-a was nothing-a meet.[1993] _Ham._ Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that[1994][1995] he sings at grave-making?[1995] _Hor._ Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.[1996] 65 _Ham._ 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.[1997] _First Clo._ [_Sings_] But age, with his stealing steps,[1998][1999] Hath claw'd me in his clutch,[1999][2000] 70 And hath shipped me intil the land,[1999][2001] As if I had never been such.[2002] [_Throws up a skull._ _Ham._ That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were[2003] Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be[2004] 75 the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches;[2005] one that would circumvent God, might it not?[2006] _Hor._ It might, my lord. _Ham._ Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord! How dost thou, sweet lord?' This might[2007] 80 be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord such-a-one's[2008] horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?[2009] _Hor._ Ay, my lord.