Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?…Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1. When the gravedigger throws up another skull, Hamlet wonders if it belonged to a lawyer. In a flurry of puns he wonders where all his lawyer tricks are now that this gravedigger knocks him on the head with a dirty shovel.