To die; to sleep;
To sleep?--_perchance_ to dream!
All the world's a _stage_,
And all the men and women _merely_ players.
They have their _exits_ and their _entrances_,
And one man in his time plays many _parts_;
His _acts_ being seven _ages_. At first the _infant_,
Mewling and puking in his _nurse's arms_.
And then the whining _school_-boy, with his _satchel_
And shining morning _face_, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to _school_. And then the lover,
Sighing like _furnace_, with a woeful _ballad_
Made to his _mistress'_ eyebrow. Then a _soldier_,
Full of _strange_ oaths, and bearded like the _pard_,
_Jealous_ in _honour_, _sudden_ and quick in _quarrel_;
Seeking the bubble _reputation_
Even in the _cannon's_ mouth.
TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.
In the beginning God _created_ the heaven and the earth. And the earth was
without _form_, and _void_; and darkness was upon the _face_ of the deep:
and the _Spirit_ of God _moved_ upon the _face_ of the waters. And God
said, Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that
it was good; and God _divided_ the light from the darkness. And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.--_Genesis_ i. 1-6.
And it came to _pass_, that when _Isaac_ was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called _Esau_, his eldest son, and said unto him,
My son. And he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
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