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At supper where? |
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At dinner where? |
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Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain |
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convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm
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your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, |
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and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your |
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lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to
one |
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table. That's the end. |
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Not where he's eating, but where he's being
eaten. A certain conference of worms is chowing down on him. Worms
are the emperor of all diets. We fatten up all creatures to feed
ourselves, and we fatten ourselves for the worms to eat when
we're dead. A fat king and a skinny beggar are just two
dishes at the same meal. That's all I have to say.*
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A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and |
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eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. |
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A man can fish with the worm that ate a king, and then eat the
fish he catches with that worm. |
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What dost you mean by this? |
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What do you mean by that? |
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Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress |
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through the guts of a beggar. |
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Nothing much, just to demonstrate that a king can move through the
bowels of a beggar. |
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Where is Polonius? |
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Where is Polonius? |
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In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him |
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not there, seek him i' th' other place
yourself. But if indeed |
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you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as |
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you go up the stairs into the lobby. |
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In heaven. Send a messager there if you want to be sure. If your
messenger can't find him, you can check hell yourself.
But seriously, if you don't find him within the next
month, you'll be sure to smell him as you go upstairs
into the main hall. |
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(to attendants) Go seek him
there. |
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(to attendants) Go look for him
there. |
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He will stay till ye come. |
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No need to hurry, he's not going anywhere. |
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