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"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." Hamlet says that the reason Claudius and Gertrude got married so soon after King Hamlet's death was to save money, since they could use the leftovers from the funeral for the wedding feast. Hamlet's tongue is firmly in cheek here.

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