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living, and if surcease of sorrow
were not better than to struggle on.
For he is not even baffled in his strait [straight]
and deliberation with any questioning of the
dream-land beyond the rounding off
of this little life in sleep. He does
not say, with the "Prince of Denmark", in
the play – * "Who would fardels bear
To groan and sweat under a weary life
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of –"

*Who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong; the proud man's contumely
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes –