Hamlet - Act 3, Scene 1

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    HAMLET

    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?

    HAMLET

    To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.

    HAMLET

    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.

    OPHELIA

    Good my lord, how does your honour for this many a day?

    HAMLET

    I humbly thank you; well, well, well.

    OPHELIA

    My lord, I have remembrances of yours, that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them.

    HAMLET

    No, not I. I never gave you aught.

    OPHELIA

    My honour'd lord, you know right well you did. And with them words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich. Their perfume lost, take these again.

    HAMLET

    Ha, ha! Are you honest?

    OPHELIA

    My lord?

    HAMLET

    Are you fair?

    OPHELIA

    What means your lordship?

    HAMLET

    That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

    OPHELIA

    Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

    HAMLET

    Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.

    HAMLET

    Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.

    OPHELIA

    O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword.