drown or hang themselves, more than their even

　　Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient

　　gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:

　　they hold up Adam's profession.

　　Second Clown

　　Was he a gentleman?

　　First Clown

　　He was the first that ever bore arms.

　　Second Clown

　　Why, he had none.

　　First Clown

　　What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the

　　Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'

　　could he dig without arms? I'll put another

　　question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the

　　purpose, confess thyself--

　　Second Clown

　　Go to.

　　First Clown

　　What is he that builds stronger than either the

　　mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?

　　Second Clown

　　The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a

　　thousand tenants.

　　First Clown

　　I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows

　　does well; but how does it well? it does well to

　　those that do in: 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.

　　Second Clown

　　'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or

　　a carpenter?'

　　First Clown

　　Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.

　　Second Clown

　　Marry, now I can tell.

　　First Clown

　　To't.

　　Second Clown

　　Mass, I cannot tell.

　　Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance

　　First Clown

　　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

　　grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till