Note 49 — Chapter VII · THE FROGS.
Reading edition
We find something of this professional badinage to the audience in Shakspeare’s “Hamlet” (act v. sc. i.):—
Ham. Marry, why was he sent into England? 1st Grave-d. Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; or if he do not, ’tis no great matter there. Ham. Why? 1st Gr. ’Twill not be seen in him there—there the men are as mad as he.