ELSINORE Inspired by Hamlet Patrice Caldwell First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willfully seeks her own salvation? Second Clown: I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial. First Clown: How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense? Second Clown: Why, ’tis found so. First Clown: It must be se offendendo. It cannot be else. For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act. And an act hath three branches—it is to act, to do, and to perform. Argal, she drowned
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