Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Actus Primus, Scena Prima • Paragraph 1147
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[Footnote III.95: _By these pickers and stealers._] _i.e._, by these hands. The phrase is taken from the Church catechism, where, in our duty to our neighbour, we are taught to keep our hands from _picking and stealing_.]