''but to play at loggets with them?  Mine ache to think on it.''

''but to play at loggets with them?  Mine ache to think on it.''

''loggets'' - a game in which playing pieces of wood are tossed at a stake.  The winner is he whose playing piece lies nearest the stake.  ''Loggets'' is therefore a game of lies.  The best lie wins.  There is a pun, in advance of Hamlet's "lie" banter with the Clown Sexton, which begins at line 102.

''loggets'' - a game in which wooden playing pieces are tossed at a stake.  The winner is he whose playing piece lies nearest the stake.  ''Loggets'' is therefore a game of lies.  The best lie wins.  There is a pun, in advance of Hamlet's "lie" banter with the Clown Sexton, which begins at line 102.

"Logget" is a diminutive of "log," and the word "log" apparently traces back to Old Norse 'lag' which meant "felled tree," thus literally a tree that lies.  In any forest, most of the trees are upstanding, but some of them lie.  ''Logget" being a diminutive, ''loggets'' is a game of little liers.  As 'twere.

"Logget" is a diminutive of "log," and the word "log" apparently traces back to Old Norse 'lag' which meant "felled tree," thus literally a tree that lies.  In any forest, most of the trees are upstanding, but some of them lie.  ''Logget" being a diminutive, ''loggets'' is a game of little liers.  As 'twere.