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HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON SUICIDE, 
To be, or not to be? that is the question; — 
Whether 'tis nobler in the miud to sufler 
The stivgs and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And by opposing, end them? To dic, to slecp-- 
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shockg 
That flesh is heir to: —'tis a consummnalion 
Devoully to be wished. To die, to slecp;=" -;1! 
To slcep! perchanco to dream;—ay, there's the rub. 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
When Wé have shuMed off this mortal coil, 
Must.give us pause. There's the respect 
That makos calamily of so long life, 
Foc who would bedrt the whips and scorns of limo,