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Credit: Hamlet, a dramatic prelude, in five acts / by James Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![He therefore gave thee salutation's blunt Regard, as with a fancy, caught of thy Odd excellence, to know thee better. Gip. To know Me well, is but to know mankind and find My sort. To know me better, let inquiry Put his smoothest on. Now I, not knowing thee, Here have thee witness 'gainst my ignorance ; And know thee all. Snu. Thyself art more a riddle Than thy words. Abroad in speech, where many a Tongue would crouch. Unwilling to authority, Where thousands less bereft, would ask opinion's Very yes and no in alms. Gip. Thou 'rt new to me In thy particular; yet recognized by Old sagacity's few private marks, to be Of those who'll smile beneath the rod of some Necessitous civility : but who as nature Rules, put on another face, and show a Weariness of decent discipline, by yawning With their inbom grossness. Snu. [Aside.] Good temper is A winning helpmate to ambition; so I'll shake resentful honor off. Already I'm a debtor to reproof; yet if thou'It Grant the grace of answer, I will make my Needful questions double debtor to thy Favor. Gip. [Aside.] There's something in us sets the rule Of give and take in courtesy. Then say, with Brief decorum. Snu. Goest thou oft to Wittenberg 1 Gip. As occasions serve, and will is master. Snu. What knowest thou of the University ? Gip. It May seem strange, but I have there, yes, many Friends.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21152081_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
