It’s funny that hire and salary are words with such a long history. They seem so contemporary somehow.
Or maybe a few decades ago – in our freelance society, getting hired or getting a salary are increasingly Rare things. But still – I don’t know how these words meanings have shifted and changed over the years. I know that a while back people would hire coaches and horse and so on and has a salary always been a regular payment system? Usually a yearly sum? Maybe it was once a little different. So – hire AND salary would suggest that Hamlet’s been FIRST, SELECTED to do the job of killing Claudius at prayer and also PAID for it.
This seems a tiny bit redundant but there is a slight raising of the idea with “AND salary” It would seem that Hire and Salary wasn’t an everyday phrase. This is Shakespeare inventing. It also would be a great name for a pub or a rock band.
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
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