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"fines", "vouchers", "recoveries"
Wordplay
Act 5,
Scene 1
Lines 96-98

Terms Hamlet uses as a play on words in Act 5, Scene 1 of myshakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet

Hum! This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, 
with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double
vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines,

Hamlet imagines that this skull came from a real estate tycoon in order to introduce several technical terms which he’s going to use in his wordplay in the next several lines.