Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2. Hamlet makes a dark and bitter joke about his mother’s hasty remarriage following his father’s death. He says that she was able to save money furnishing the leftover funeral meats to her wedding guests. Hamlet is angry at the hypocrisy of the funeral baked meats being used as a cold lunch for his uncle and mother’s wedding dinner.