Note 1001 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
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Hamlet, III. ii. 286:
'Hamlet. Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players.
Horatio. Half a share.
Hamlet. A whole one, I.'
For half-sharers, cf. ch. xiii (Queen's, Admiral's). Three-quarter sharers existed in the Lady Elizabeth's men about 1614; cf. T. M., Father Hubburd's Tales (Bullen, Middleton, viii. 64), 'The ant began to stalk like a three-quarter sharer'.