...King, father, royal Dane. O, O answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements,...thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel, Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and...

...church. Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly interred, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again....mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to...

...hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements, why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd 50 Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous and we fools of nature 55 So horridly...

...universalized and rationalized in a lucid and transparent diction. Think of Hamlet's address to the Ghost: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in...the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?...

...prescript of the original KKK formed in Tennessee bears the following verses from Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4: What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again,...the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?...

...King, father; royal Dane, O, answer me! 45 Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements;...quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws 50 To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits...

...UNCRITICAL READING AND JOHNSONIAN COMMUNION Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell, Why thy canonize! bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements?...the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?...

...UNCRITICAL READING AND JOHNSONIAN COMMUNION Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements?...mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly...

...blossom as the rose.' 162.8-9. To revisit the glimpses of the moon: a further reference to Hamlet: 'What may this mean, | That thou, dead corse, again...thus the glimpses of the moon, | Making night hideous . . .' (l. iv. 51-4; I. iv. 32-5). 25. Byron: After his death in 1824 Byron's career quickly became...

...death, Have burst their cerements: Why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again....mean That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon. . . . And when the Ghost answers him and says: "I am thy...