"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
09/17/2014 at 21:30 • Filed to: None | 4 | 0 |
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rods and pistons of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of autos,
And by opposing end them. To drive- to shift-
No more; and by a shift to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To drive- to shift.
To shift- perchance to drift: ay, there's the rub!
For in that shift to second what drifts may come
When we have shuffled off these sparking coils,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the chips and scrapes of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a gated manual? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after a shift-
The undiscover'd road course, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.- Soft you now!
The fair Manual!- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my shifts rememb'red.