...nightmare of a hell of eternal punishment. "But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles...fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience makes cowards of us all; And thus the native use of resolution Is sickled o'er with the pale cast of...

...and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make 20 With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt...know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 30 And enterprises...

...this mortal coil, Must give us pause . . . For who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . ? ... Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a...traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (HI, i, 56-82) Not to be is...

...body, but there remains something of it which is eternal. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, V, 23 (1677) 1 1 Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a...traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? William Shakespeare, Hamlet,...

..."the ability to think"). For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, . . . When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels...know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. References 1. Greenherg, J., Solomon S., & Pyszczynski, T. (1997). Terror management theory of...

...of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his 'Quietus' make With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life,...know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, The Tragedie of Hamlet 103 The Harlots Cheeke beautied with plaist'ring Art Is not more vgly to...

...that renders him unable to act. Who would "grunt and sweat under a weary life," he muses, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd...know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all .... Death, rather than being an absolute escape from it all, might only be a permanent sleep....

...twice punning on his own word "bare" [also 3.2.70], while echoing the Ghost's exhortation [1.5.81]): Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a...traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (3.1.76-82) No one would bear...

...my betters I suggest that, in Hamlet, the context hardly seems to warrant this interpretation; eg, 'who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under...No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know ACT I, SC. iv.] A man cannot fteale,...

...To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles...know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprizes...