...Polonius? HAMLET At supper. CLAUDIUS At supper? Where? HAMLET Not where he eats, but where a 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. H AML ET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and 25 eat of the...

...'s Polonius? Ham. At supper. King. At supper? Where? Ham. Not where he eats, but where a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but one table. That's the end. King. Alas, alas. Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king,...

...Claudius sense a threat to himself in Hamlet's word-play concerning maggots, kings and beggars? SCENE 3 fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one 25 table - that's the end. KING Alas, alas! HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a...

...and revulsion, an obsession with a corporeality that reduces everything to appetite and excretion. "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end" (4.3.22-25). Here, as in the lines about the...

...resonance in the phrase "Not where he eats but where a is eaten," the next lines make it sound again: "A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet" (4.3.20-22). Scholars duly note the allusion to the Diet of Worms, where Luther's doctrines were officially...

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...Polonius? Hamlet At supper. Claudius At supper! where? Hamlet Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....— two dishes, but to one table: that's the end. Claudius Alas, alas! Hamlet A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish...

...goes further. "A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him," he replies and then explains: Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. (4.3.19-25) In the previous scene, Hamlet suggested that death obscures the distinction between family...

...Polonius? At supper. At supper! Where? Not where he eats, but where he is eaten; a certain convocation of worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourself for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to...

...where he eats, but where a is eaten. A cer20 tain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your 21 worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures...fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat 23 king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes, but to one table. That's the end....