10/28 shakespeare

10/28:
assignment for ap lit, imitate hamlet's to be or not to be soliloque.

To love, or not to love: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to wonder
What a man thinks of oneself, good or bad,
Or to risk the downfall of one's own soul
If thy thoughts should falter? To love: to fall,
And in doing so to give all one has
For the benefit of one single being
For no certain return. To love, to fall;
To fall: perchance to break: ay, there's the rub;
For in that fall for love, what harm may come
When one has entrusted everything owned
Simply to hope for a love in reply.
When nothing is assuréd in the heart,
Thou must choose to put thy heart on the line.
To exist in pure speculation for
What may have occurred if thou had jumpéd,
Only for the hope that one may be catched,
Is to exist without purpose. Thou ought
To feel the delights of love before death,
Or life, 'twill be wasted in the utmost.
Never to face the happiness which is
The companion of emotion well spent
Is that which plagues our existence in ways
No other occurrence can. 'Tis the truth
That one's fate may be sealéd with one kiss;
One kiss which may linger on thy lips and
In thy head for eternity. For what?
For the notion that one's life does matter.
'Tis the belief of Sir Francis Edwards
That all's fair in love and war; and 'tis true,
For to love without restraint, with full force
And total trust is the fairest quality
Which one could hope to contain in one's life.