Hamlet
ACT IV, Sc. 4, Lines 34-58: Sum up Hamlet's thinking in lines 34-48
Hamlet. How all occassions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th'event -
A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdome
And never three parts coward - I do not know
Why yet I live to this thing's to do,
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
To do't.