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In the churchyard, two gravediggers shovel out a grave for Ophelia. They argue whether Ophelia should be buried in the churchyard, since her death looks like a suicide.
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| The gallows-maker, for his frame outlasts a thousand tenants! | |
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Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs, and the gravedigger first claims that the grave is his own, since he is digging it, then that the grave belongs to no man and no woman.
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| That was a woman sir; but, rest her soul, she’s dead. | |
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As Ophelia is laid in the earth, Hamlet realizes it is she who has died. At the same moment, Laertes becomes infuriated with the priest about the rites of her burial.
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| Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum! | |
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