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Credit: Hamlet, a dramatic prelude, in five acts / by James Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2d Citizen. And it's all true ; for it's told both ways, in the expositor. 1st Citizen. Then he's a cobler. Tlie Mob. Out with him ; he's a cobler; down with him. \Thty pull him from the rostrum.'] Mar. What! up and down in a breath ? This must be what they call the tact of influence. Govern- ing men by popular eloquence is a wonderful thing, my lord!! Ham. That depends on, whether the spouter stands at the top or bottom of the people's opinion. A thimble full of argument, mouth upwards, measures more than the great bell of Muscovy, with its tongue t'other way. Mar. What will become of this talented speaker, if his schools succeed 1 Ham. He'll be hanged upon his own tree of know- ledge. Mar. Then his stir for education, is a swimming with the current, after the pig's fashion of suicide: he tries to save his life of popularity, by cutting the throat of his cunning. Ham. He's as foolish as the ideot-boy,—who cried for light, to count more stars: but found at day-break, that his hoped arithmetic was all subtraction. Mar. There's one, who, if you ask him a question, will first run over the thirty-two points of prudence, to be sure, whether the wind of his answer will be for or against himself. He's of the kind that always peeps through the key-hole of his conduct, before he dares to open the door. Ham. Oh ! I know his genus. If that fellow, Mar- cellus, could, by the miracle of a double sun, get rid of his own shadow, he might let his opinions enjoy more day-light. For he has such a calculating, peeping, whis- pering, and monosyllabic caution in his life, that he is afraid of the very ground-plot outline of himself; as if it were the copied spy of his own watchfulness. What is that little fidget about ? Mar. He's persuading an almanac maker, to add seven more days to the year. He so generously gives](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21152081_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
