Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Chapter 60

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“_Ros._ Take you me for a spunge, my lord?

_Ham._ Ay, Sir; that soaks up the King’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities,” &c.

Hamlet’s madness is made to consist in the free utterance of all the thoughts that had passed through his mind before;—in fact, in telling home-truths.