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The 1st great soliloquy in Hamlet

"O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d 135 His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ‘t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature 140 Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 145 Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on ‘t: Frailty, thy name is woman! 150 A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer, — married with mine uncle, 155 My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O! most wicked speed, to post 160 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets. It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!"

For the outward form and delivery of expression, this kind of material is the kind of food for the soul of a stammerer, for Jarfff that is, yes, tis my dream to convey unto those it concerns to be as unto all alone, for that person never doth understand me to begin with, so when i speaketh unto his personage i want to please myself at least, so that 50% can be the better of it at least if i should so choose to refrain from keeping my trap shut. Many many performances to look forward to, for this and the Bard's great Plays, both tragic and fanciful, dramatically charged, and relationally rich and sharp. Not in a Shakespeare phase though, he must simply be a part of everything else.

 
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