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Earl Fowler

When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin

To bidet, or not to bidet, that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the hind to suffer

The springs and narrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take legs against a sea of bubbles

And by opposing (ahem) end them. To sigh — to bleed,

No more; and with a sweep to say we end

The heartburn of the bowels and hanging bollocks

That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be swish’d. A thigh, to sweep;

To sweep, perchance to gleam — ay, theres the rub:

For in that underneath what streams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coiler,

Must give huzzahs — there’s the reject

That makes smell amity of so loose strife.

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David Sherman
Dec 09, 2024

Seteth thy temperature with due care lest you redefine true strife.

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Earl Fowler
Dec 09, 2024
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Why still fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life?

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ANNE TAIT
ANNE TAIT
Dec 09, 2024

Clever, and very funny - a rare subject alongside Hamlet's suicidal soliloquy.

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Earl Fowler
Dec 09, 2024
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Thank you.

And enterprises of great pith and movement

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the bane of compaction.

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