《英文观止（上）》试读：哈姆莱特——原著诵读

    The Tragedie of Hamlet    Actus Secundus.Scena Secunda    ...    Enter Hamlet        Ham.To be, or not to be, that is the Question：（40）   1710    Whether’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer（41）    The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune,（42）    Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles，（43）    And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe（44）    No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end    The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes    That Flesh is heyre too?（45）’Tis a consummation（46）    Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe,    To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub,（47）    For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,（48）  1720    When we haue shufflel’d off this mortall coile,（49）    Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect（50）    That makes Calamity of so long life（51）:    For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time,（52）    The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely,（53）    The pangs of dispriz’d Loue, the Lawes delay（54）,    The insolence of Office, and the Spurnes（55）    That patient merit of the vnworthy takes（56）,    When he himselfe might his Quietus make（57）    With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare（58）   1730    To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,    But that the dread of something after death,（59）    The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne（60）    No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will（61）,    And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,    Then flye to others that we know not of（62）.    Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all（63）,    And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution(64)    Is sicklied o’re, with the pale cast of Thought,（65）    And enterprizes of great pith and moment，（66）  1740    With this regard their Currants turne away，（67）    And loose the name of Action（68）    ...