Hamlet vocabulary

February 27th, 1829 [...] Peel’s election [Oxford University] is going on ill. The Convocation presents a most disgraceful scene of riot and uproar.

Charles Greville. The Greville Memoirs, volume 1

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King. Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?

Ham. At supper.

King. At supper? Where?

Ham. Not where he eats, but where he 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 else to fat us,and we fat ourselves for maggots.