Hamlet (Translated Into Modern English) - Audio Drama/Play - Looking For Voice Actors!
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A gravedigger who digs the grave at Ophelia’s funeral.
Hmm. It must be “se offendendo”, it cannot be anything else. . For here lies the point. If I drown myself knowingly it argues an act, and an act has three branches: it is to act, to do, to perform: therefore, she drowned herself knowingly.
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 for twenty-three years.
(Sings) In youth, when I did love, did love, methought it was very sweet, to contract, oh, the time, for, ah, my behove, oh, methought, there was nothing meet. But age, with his stealing steps, hath claw'd me in his clutch, and hath shipped me intil the land, as if I had never been such. A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, for and a shrouding sheet: oh, a pit of clay for to be made for such a guest is meet. Oh, a pit of clay for to be made for such a guest is meet.