...prologue to my brains, They had begun the play - I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness...fair, and laboured much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know Th' effect of what I wrote? HORATIO Ay, good...

...that an illegible hand stood as the mark of gentle breeding. Shakespeare's Hamlet admitted that he "once did hold it, as our statists do, / A baseness to write fair, and labored much / How to forget that learning" and reflected positively on the skill of penmanship only...

...from the time of al-Mutadid (892), because it was not only receiving income from Cf. Hamlet (v.ii): T once did hold it, as our statists do, | A baseness to write fair'! But see Margoliouth and Amedroz, The Eclipse of the Ahhasia Caliphate, iv. i70, where Miskawayh lists...

...1921 Dear Pollock, Your letter as to handwriting provokes a line following recent letters. I never did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair (I suppose on the theory that it showed time taken from the sword for the pen). On the contrary I used...

...round with villainies, They had begun the play. I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness...fair, and laboured much How to forget that learning; but sir, now 35 It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know Th 'effect of what I wrote? HORATIO Ay gtxid...

...the name of "Hamlet" to the letter he has forged in the careful calligraphy of a professional scribe. {"I once did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair . . . but, sir, now/It did me yeman's service" [5.2.33-3fi]I. The "changeling" letter that sends Rosencramz...

...prologue to my brains, They had begun the play, — I sat me down; Devis'da new commission; wrote it fair: I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...

...prologue to my brains, They had begun the play - I sat me down, Devis'da new commission, wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much The Tragedie of Hamlet 209 You doe remember all the Circumstance. Hot Remember it my...

...expressed or disguised in playful satire. I sat me down ; Devis'da new commission ; wrote it fair. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. "Wilt thou know...

...to my brains, They had begun the play. I sat me down, 32 Devised a new commission, wrote it fair. 33 I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labored much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now 36 It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know...