Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
Chapter 60
“_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.