...'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him th1ther with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as...returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make 200 loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious...

...consider too curiously to consider so.] No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty9 enough, and likelihood to lead it. As thus: Alexander...returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam,10 and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious...

...fictionalises the downfall of Alexander: Alexander died, Alexander was buried. Alexander returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?69 Thus begins a series of more or less comic reflections on the 'disjunctive' human body...

...'a find it stopping a bunghole? HORATIO(P). Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET. No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? (Exit CLOWN.) But soft, but soft awhile! Here comes the King. (Enter KING, QUEEN, LAERTES,...

...Horatio!" Yet he is unthreatened by this recognition. Instead, he joins in the grave diggers' ironic humor: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? (5.1.202, 207-12) In thus accepting the inevitability of his own death, Hamlet completes the questioning...

...so," he temperately says (Vi207-8). But Hamlet is not temperate. "No, faith, not a jot," he counters, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and...loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O,...

...the processes of decay which transform the body of Alexander into the bung which stops a beer barrel: 'Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...earth, of earth we make loam, and why of that loam whereof he was converted might they not stop a beerbarrel?' (Vi201-5). Hamlet's corporeal philosophy,...

...were wont to set the table on a roar? (V, i, 184-191) Then his thoughts turn to another great prince: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? (V, i. 208-212) The humor is tinged with melancholy. It suggests a man more at peace with his world,...

...till a find it stopping <; bung-hole? HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with...Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted,...

...imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till 'a find it stopping 175 a bung-hole? HOR. Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. HAM. No,...thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it. Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we iso...