...reasonable: No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it. Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? (5. 1.200-5) Hamlet, who has not spoken in verse since leaving for...

...not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it. Alexan- 198 der died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to...the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why 200 of that loam whereto he was converted might they not 201 stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar,...

...and likelihood to lead it: as thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander return eth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to...

...and likelihood to lead it. As thus: 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 might they not stop a beer-barrel? The Tragedie of Hamlet 201 Whose doe you thinke it was? Ham. Nay,...

...span. 20 'Alexander died', reflected Prince Hamlet, 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 might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to...

...Hamlet No, faith, not a jot, but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it. Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and why 195 of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead...

...it; as thus: Alexander dicd, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is carth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrcl ? Imperìous Caesar, dead and turned to clay, PR1MO CLOWN D'un figlio...

...likelihood 230 to lead it; as thus: 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 might they not stop a beer-barrel? 235 Imperial Cœsar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole...

...of even Alexander's decomposed body: "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, might they not stop a beer barrel?"3 From Babylon to a bunghole, the trail of Alexander's remains allegedly...

...qualitatively even as they approached the deaths that would return them to it. As Hamlet explains to Horatio, "Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...loam, and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?" (5.1.208-12). But melancholy, as well as signaling the cold, dry...