...HORATIO E'en so. 190 HAMLET And smelt so? Pah! [he sets down the skull HORATIO E'en so, my lord. HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may...imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till 'a find it stopping a bung-hole? HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET No,...

...Horatio. E'en so. Hamlet. And smelt so? pah! [Puts down the skull.] Horatio. E'en so, my lord Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may...of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? Horatio. Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Hamlet. No, faith, not a jot; but to follow...

...Exploration Fund, 1894-5. 36 Arrian, Anabasis 5.26.4. 10. Famous Alexandrian Mummies Hamlet: To what base use we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace...of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? Horatio: Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. Hamlet: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow...

...the uses of putrefied flesh in 5.1 while contemplating the skull of the jester Yorick, marveling at "what base uses we may return, Horatio": Why may not...imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till a find it stopping a bunghole? HORATIO: 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so. HAMLET: No,...

...the impermanence of things and the lack of any theological or metaphysical significance in the world. 'Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bung-hole?' (Vi 187-9), Hamlet asks, echoing the morbid thoughts about the physicality of death which were current...

...'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so" (Hamlet, V, 1,227), in response to Hamlet's proposal: "Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?" To Horatio's objection, Hamlet replies: "No, faith, not a jot. . . ." See Chapter 30 for a discussion...

...nets and the net bags in which onions are sold.> "To what base uses we may return. Horatio! Why may imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole'.'" —WILLIAM SHAKI si'i \RI . H\\iii i bun-ya nut /ban'-ya nat/ n. a variety of nut that grows on the...

...circular and self-consuming universe is now recalled, though more extensively and with less regret: HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may...imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till a find it stopping a bung-hole? HORATIO Twere to consider too curiously to consider so. HAMLET No....