 | Christiane Fioupou - 1994 - 416 pages
...convocation of politic worms are c'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat ail créatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots :...to one table : that's the end. / KING : Alas, alas ! / HAMLET : A man may fish with the worm that has eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1992 - 1006 pages
...Hamlet's developing philosophy (non-philosophy?), his fears, but also a buried threat to Claudius: Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all...ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar — Here he has nodded or pointed to Claudius or the spies, as suited — is but variable service —... | |
 | Katharine Young - 1993 - 290 pages
...At supper? Where? Hamlet: Not where he eats, but where a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. Claudius: Alas,... | |
 | David Rosen - 1993 - 260 pages
...cyclical rather than static or progressive view of life and death is seen in one of Hamlet's riddles: "We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves...variable service — two dishes, but to one table. ... A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...At supper? Where? HAMLET. Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end. HAMLET. In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other... | |
 | Robert E. Wood - 1994 - 188 pages
...gave him. (in.iv. 172-77) Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten; a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor...service, two dishes, but to one table — that's the end. (IV.iii. 19-25) When Hamlet reveals where he has hidden Polonius, the jest produced by ignoring the... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Staten - 1995 - 266 pages
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Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of [politic] worms* are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. 
