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• [...] [A black swallowtail] does not—as a true insect does—change from worm to grub, and from grub to his mature form, but simply “shuffles off his mortal coil,”—skin, hairs, and leggings all complete, now and then, [...]. He then leaves his shuffled-off “mortal coil” hanging upon a fragment of dirty cobweb, as before described.
• Shakespeare represents the human body under various figures: a coil: a case: a frame: a machine: a vesture: a heft: a motion or puppet: &c. It has been contended that in Hamlet’s speech, the ‘mortal coil’ is the coil, i.e. trouble of turmoil, incident to man’s mortal state: but the analogies are too strong in favor of the ‘mortal coil’ being what Fletcher calls the ‘case of flesh’ (Bonduca, iv. 1).
• His soul may have found rest, but “his mortal coil” certainly did not. Unfortunately [...] the village “astrologer” informed them that [...] they must dig him up, give the customary feast in his honor and have another burial site chosen.
• She escaped her mortal coil and moved out, looking back at herself as she stood motionless, clutching the stone that had become the link between her body and her spirit.