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XII . Alas , Poor Yorick In the churchyard near the castle , two gravediggers were digging a new grave . They were simple , cheerful men who joked about everything . “ Will she have a Christian burial ? ” asked the second gravedigger . “ People say that she drowned herself on purpose . ” “ The judge has decided that she can , ” said the first gravedigger . “ But if she weren’t a great lady , she wouldn’t get one . ” The second man went to fetch a drink . The first gravedigger went on working . He sang an old song while he dug , and he threw old bones and skulls out of the grave . Just then Hamlet and Horatio came into the churchyard . Hamlet had returned to Denmark , and he was on his way to the castle . “ Doesn’t this man feel anything ? ” said Hamlet . “ He is singing while he digs a grave . ” “ He has done it so often that it doesn’t touch him any more , ” said Horatio . Hamlet went to the edge of the grave . “ Whose grave is this , sir ? ” “ It is for one that was a woman , sir , ” said the gravedigger . “ But , God rest her soul , she’s dead . ” “ How long have you been a gravedigger ? ” “ I started on the day that our last King Hamlet beat old Fortinbras , ” said the gravedigger . “ It was the day that young Hamlet was born . He’s the one who is mad . They have sent him to England . ” “ Why was he sent to England ? ” “ Why , because he was mad . He will get his mind back there . And if he doesn’t , nobody there will notice . The men there are as mad as he is , ” said the gravedigger , and he laughed . He picked up a skull . “ Now this skull has been in the earth for twenty - three years . It was Yorick’s skull , the king’s jester . ” A jester was a man who told jokes and played the fool for the king and his court . Hamlet took the skull in his hands and looked at it for a long time . “ Alas , poor Yorick , ” he said . Alas was an old word that people used when they were sad . “ I knew him , Horatio . He was a man of endless jokes . He carried me on his back a thousand times when I was a boy . Here were the lips that I kissed so often . Where are your jokes now , Yorick ? Where are your songs ? Where is the fun that made the whole table roar with laughter ? ” He gave the skull back . “ Even Alexander the Great looks like this in the earth now , ” he said . “ The greatest king in the world became only dust . ” Then he saw people coming . “ Quiet ! Let’s step aside . Here comes the king . ” A small , sad group came slowly into the churchyard . The king , the queen and Laertes were following a coffin . There were very few prayers . “ Is there nothing more ? ” asked Laertes . “ Her death was doubtful , ” said the priest . “ We have done as much as we can . ” “ Then put her in the earth , ” said Laertes . “ And from her pure body let violets grow . My sister will be an angel in heaven , cruel priest , when you are in hell . ” “ What , beautiful Ophelia ! ” whispered Hamlet . He was shocked . The queen threw flowers onto the coffin . “ Sweet flowers for a sweet girl , ” she said . “ I hoped that you would be my Hamlet’s wife . I hoped to put flowers on your wedding bed , not on your grave . ”
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