Histoire et El em ens. 3o5 



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Hamlefs Soliloquy. 



« To be or not to be ! that is the question. — 



» VVhethei' tis nobler in the mind to suffer 



» The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; 



» Or to take arms against a siege of troubles , 



» And, by opposing, and them? lo die. — To sleep. — 



» No more ! — and by a sleep to say we end 



» The heart-ach, and the thousand natural shocks 



)) That flesh is heir to : tis a consummation 



» Devoutly to be wish'd. — To die To sleep. — 



« To sleep ! perchance to dream ! ay there's te rub — 



» For in that sleep of dealli, wheat dreams may come 



» When we have shuffled off this mortal coil , 



» Most give us pause : — There's the respect 



» That makes calamity of so long a life ! 



» For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 



» Th' oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely , ; • 



» The pangs of despis'd love , the law's delay , 



» The insolence of office, and the spurns 



■)> That patient merit of the unworthy lakes ; 



» When lie himself might his quietus make ■,,,.',' 



» With a bare bodkin? Who would sardels bear, , . 'j 



» To groan and sweat under a weary life? , •: .• 



» But that the dread of something after death, 



» That undiscover'd country, from .whose bourn 



» No traveller returns, puzzles the will, 



1) And makes us- rather bear those ills we have, 



» Than fly to others thai we know not of. ii,v(i 



» Thus conscience does make cowards of us all , ^^^([ 



» And thus the native hue of resolution ; i^B^"'.' 



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