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By john de herrera (about the author)
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GRAVEDIGGER (CONT'D)
Let me put another question to you.
MATE
Go ahead.
GRAVEDIGGER
Who builds something stronger than either the mason, the
shipwright, or the carpenter?
MATE
The gallows-maker, their structure outlives a thousand
tenants.
GRAVEDIGGER
I like that, I do--the gallows is a clever answer. But how
right is it? It's right to those who cause harm. But it's
wrong to say the gallows is stronger than the Church. Try
again.
MATE
Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a
carpenter?
(Mate thinks.)
MATE (CONT'D)
I can't think of it.
GRAVEDIGGER
Don't beat your brains about it, you can't get a donkey to
move faster by beating it. Next time you're asked the
question, say, "A grave-maker." The houses he makes last
till doomsday. Now off to Yaughan's to fetch me some liquor.
(Mate exits, Gravedigger continues
digging.)
GRAVEDIGGER (CONT'D)
(singing)
"In youth when I did love, did love, methought it was very
sweet: to contract the time for my delight I thought there
was no greater treat."
(Hamlet and Horatio enter.)
HAMLET
Has this fellow no feeling? He sings while grave-making.
HORATIO
He's done it long enough, he no longer thinks of it.
HAMLET
True. People who don't work have the time to indulge in a
daintier sense.
GRAVEDIGGER
(singing)
"But age with his stealing steps hath clawed me in his
clutch, and hath shipped me the back into earth, as if I'd
never been born."
Become a Fan -- Page 2 of 9 page(s)
Let me put another question to you.
MATE
Go ahead.
GRAVEDIGGER
Who builds something stronger than either the mason, the
shipwright, or the carpenter?
MATE
The gallows-maker, their structure outlives a thousand
tenants.
GRAVEDIGGER
I like that, I do--the gallows is a clever answer. But how
right is it? It's right to those who cause harm. But it's
wrong to say the gallows is stronger than the Church. Try
again.
MATE
Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a
carpenter?
(Mate thinks.)
MATE (CONT'D)
I can't think of it.
GRAVEDIGGER
Don't beat your brains about it, you can't get a donkey to
move faster by beating it. Next time you're asked the
question, say, "A grave-maker." The houses he makes last
till doomsday. Now off to Yaughan's to fetch me some liquor.
(Mate exits, Gravedigger continues
digging.)
GRAVEDIGGER (CONT'D)
(singing)
"In youth when I did love, did love, methought it was very
sweet: to contract the time for my delight I thought there
was no greater treat."
(Hamlet and Horatio enter.)
HAMLET
Has this fellow no feeling? He sings while grave-making.
HORATIO
He's done it long enough, he no longer thinks of it.
HAMLET
True. People who don't work have the time to indulge in a
daintier sense.
GRAVEDIGGER
(singing)
"But age with his stealing steps hath clawed me in his
clutch, and hath shipped me the back into earth, as if I'd
never been born."
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