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Okay, so it's the only one I know from memory...To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep --
No more -- and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to! 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep --
To sleep -- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself with his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Whou would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
Thaat undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience makes does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.[Ophelia speaks.]
Okay, so I had to go back and re-check with the text... But I only had three
typos! :)Posted by LunarCaustic on March 31, 1997 at 16:47:44
In Reply to "Quickly need complete text for Hamlet's "To Be or Not to Be" Solilique" posted by mel on March 31, 1997 at 11:56:12
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