...guts of a beggar'. Three Q2 lines were apparently inadvertently omitted in F: KING. Alas, alas! HAM. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. (4.3.26-8) Of the three earliest texts, QI'S version of these lines seems the clearest, as only QI...

...Catching average trout from average streams may be a lousy job, but someone has to do it. — John Gierach A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — William Shakespeare One cannot step twice into the same river. — Herakleitos The truth is, fly...

...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 for diet: we fat all creatures...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,...

...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...— two dishes, but to one table. That's the end" (4.3.22-25). Here, as in the lines about the king's progress through the guts of a beggar, the revulsion...

...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...

...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, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. King. What dost thou mean by this? Ham. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through...

...told Claudius that Polonius was "at supper. . . . Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten" and that "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm," so that "a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar" (4.3.17-19, 27-29, 30-31).42 Now the...

...fantasy in which political and symbolic incorporation becomes indistinguishable from excretion: Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. King: What dost thou mean by this? Hamlet: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through...

...him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourself for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is...a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.46 What dost thou mean by this? Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the...