[KING] Now, Hamlet, where is Polonius?
[HAMLET] At supper.
[KING] At supper! Where?
[HAMLET] Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms that are eating on him. Your work is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots; your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes. but to one table. That's the end.
[KING] Alas, alas!
[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 the guts of a beggar.
[HAMLET] At supper.
[KING] At supper! Where?
[HAMLET] Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms that are eating on him. Your work is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots; your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service - two dishes. but to one table. That's the end.
[KING] Alas, alas!
[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 the guts of a beggar.
