Read the excerpt from hamlet. hamlet: no, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: alexander died, alexander was buried, alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam, and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? imperious caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away shakespeare makes allusions to the great rulers alexander and caesar to