From Hamlet Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare
HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio!Why may not imagination trace the noble dust ofAlexander till he find it stopping a bunghole?HORATIO ’Twere to consider too curiously to considerso.HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither,with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it, asthus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexanderreturneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earthwe make loam; and why of that loam whereto hewas converted might they not stop a beer barrel?Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.O, that that earth which kept the world in aweShould patch a wall t’ expel the winter’s flaw!
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