the similar, but very inferior, Scenes in "Hamlet."_

_The Dutch Dolls_ (_running about_). Both of them bleeding already!
There's blood on the walls already! Already blood on the walls! (&c.).

_The Bedell_. The Prince has slain DJOË. Take him into custody.

[_PONSCH strikes the Bedell down._

_The B._ Ha! ha! ha! (_Tries to rise--but is struck again_). Ha! ha!
(_PONSCH strikes once more._) Ha!

[_The Bedell dies; a draught enters under the door and
blows out two of the candles; a thunderbolt is heard coming
down-stairs, and the Ghost of JÖDI suddenly appears from
behind a tapestry representing "The Finding of Moses."_

_Ponsch_ (_to Ghost_). Have you any hearse-plumes at hand? Do not be
angry with me. Can you hear my teeth? I am only a poor little old man.
Will you please undo my necktie? (_cf. "King Lear"_). Let us go to
breakfast. Will there be muffins for breakfast?

[_Exit, leaning heavily on Ghost's arm._

_The Dutch Dolls_ (_with conviction_). One more such night as this,
and all our heads would have gone bald!

SAMPLE No. III.--_The Courtyard with a scaffold and gibbet.
A blood-red moon is sailing amid the currant-bushes, and a
shower of stars proceeds uninterruptedly. PONSCH discovered