To be,or not to be,that is the Question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer
The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune;
Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them:to dye,to sleepe
No more; and by a sleepe,to say we end
The Heart-ake,and the thousand Naturall shockes
That Flesh is heyre too?'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.To dye to sleepe,
To sleepe,perchance to Dreame; I,there's the rub,
For in that sleepe of death,what dreames may come,
When we have shuffel'd off this mortall coile,
Must give us pawse.There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,
The Oppressors wrong,the poore mans Contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd Love,the Lawes delay,
The insolence of Office,and the Spurnes
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himselfe might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin?Who would these fardles beare
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered Countrey,from whose Borne
No Traveller returnes,Puzels the will,
And makes us rather beare those illes we have,
Then flye to others that we know not of.
Thus Conscience does make Cowards of us all,
And thus the Native hew of resolution
Is sicklied o're,with the pale cast of Thought,
And enterprizes of great pith and moment,
With this regard their Currants turne away,
And loose the name of Action.
