...certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him.1 Your worm is your only emperor for diet : wo fat all creatures else, to fat us ; and we fat ourselves...but to one table ; that's the end. King. Alas, alas ! 2 Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king ; and eat of the fish that hath fed of...

...contusion, and liie curing a disorder by death." — Notes to Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, MXVL Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else, to fat us ; and we fat ourseives for maggots : your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variuble service ; two dishes,...

...! — where ? • Ham. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of palated worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table ; that 's the end. King. Alas, alas ! Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king ; and...

...Where ? Ham. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are ev'n at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet :...but variable service ; two dishes, but to one table ; that 's the end. King. Alas, alas ! Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hnth eat of a king, and...

...Polonius? HAM. At supper. KINO. At supper ! Where ? HAM. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic* worms are e'en at...all creatures else to fat us ; and we fat ourselves t for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar, is but variable service, — two dishes, but to...

...eaten," Hamlet, with black and deadly humor, answers: A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en now at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We...service — two dishes but to one table. That's the end. (IV.iii. 19-25) "Alas, alas," Claudius responds, deprecating the disease of his nephew's wits. But...

...the guts of a beggar" (4.3.30-31)45 thanks to the anal reductionism of "impolitic worms," for which "your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table" (4. 3. 23-24). 48 Since Hamlet has referred to himself as a beggar (2.2.272), in death he and Claudius...

...of the leveling process by which death will bring even a king low. As for Polonius's body, Hamlet. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....but to one table. That's the end. King. Alas, alas! Hamlet. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of...

...supper. CLAUDIUS (patient) At supper? Where? HAMLET (jolly) Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....service — two dishes, but to one table. That's the end CLAUDIUS Alas, alas! This last for the company. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a King,...

...Polonius? Hamlet: At supper. King: At supper? Where? Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where he is eaten; a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but 'The ancient British considered maggots as their main food. It must have been a long extinct variety...