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March 29, 2005
On Shakespearean Soliloquy
To be, or not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the rest; I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.There's no such thing: It is the east, and Juliet is the east, and Juliet is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is the east, and Juliet 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? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the spurns That patient merit of the fairest stars in all the rest; I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Posted by Mark V. Shaney at March 29, 2005 12:19 PM
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