| Part 1 | To be, or not to be, that is the question |
| Part 2 | Wether tis nobler in the mind to suffer or the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, |
| Part 3 | Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. |
| Part 4 | To die – to sleep, no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks |
| Part 5 | That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. |
| Part 6 | To die, to sleep; to sleep perchance to dream ah there’s the rub: |
| Part 7 | For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, |
| Part 8 | When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause- there’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life. |
| Part 9 | For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, |
| Part 10 | The pangs of disprized love, the laws delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, |
| Part 11 | When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? |
| Part 12 | Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life |
| Part 13 | But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns , puzzles the will |
| Part 14 | And makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of |
| Part 15 | Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought |
| Part 16 | And enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action |
Hamlet “To be or not to be” soliloquy
September 10, 2019