To Be or Not to Be : Shakespeare's Soliloquies Book

	Introduction
	A Note on the Text
	Two Gentlemen of Verona
	Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping	1
	Even as one heat another heat expels	2
	To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn	3
	How use doth breed a habit in a man!	4
	The Taming of the Shrew
	Thus have I politicly begun my reign	6
	Henry VI Part 2
	Anjou and Maine are given to the French	8
	Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts	10
	Henry VI Part 3
	The army of the Queen hath got the field	12
	This battle fares like to the morning's war	13
	Ill blows the wind that profits nobody	15
	Ay, Edward will use women honourably	18
	What! Will the aspiring blood of Lancaster	21
	Titus Andronicus
	Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top	23
	Henry VI Part 1
	My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel	25
	Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice	25
	Richard III
	Now is the winter of our discontent	27
	Was ever woman in this humour wooed?	28
	Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!	30
	Love's Labour's Lost
	And I, forsooth, in love!	32
	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	How happy some o'er other some can be!	34
	Romeo and Juliet
	But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?	35
	O Romeo, Romeo! - wherefore art thou Romeo?	36
	Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds	37
	Richard II
	I have been studying how I may compare	39
	King John
	Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!	42
	Henry IV Part 1
	I know you all, and will awhile uphold	44
	'Tis not due yet - I would be loath to pay him before his day	45
	For worms, brave Percy, Fare thee well, great heart!	46
	Embowelled? If thou embowel me to-day	47
	Henry IV Part 2
	How many thousands of my poorest subjects	48
	I would you had but the wit	49
	Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow	50
	Much Ado About Nothing
	I do much wonder that one man	52
	Henry V
	Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls	54
	O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts	56
	Julius Caesar
	It must be by his death; and, for my part	57
	Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar	58
	O conspiracy	58
	O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth	59
	As You Like It
	Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love	60
	Hamlet
	O that this too too sullied flesh would melt	61
	O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?	62
	O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!	63
	To be, or not to be - that is the question	65
	'Tis now the very witching time of night	66
	O, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven	67
	Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying	68
	How all occasions do inform against me	69
	Twelfth Night
	I left no ring with her; what means this lady?	71
	Troilus and Cressida
	Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds!	73
	Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice	74
	I am giddy; expectation whirls me round	74
	Sir Thomas More
	It is in heaven that I am thus and thus	76
	Measure for Measure
	What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?	77
	When I would pray and think, I think and pray	78
	He who the sword of heaven will bear	79
	Othello
	This fellow's of exceeding honesty	80
	It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul	81
	All's Well That Ends Well
	O, were that all! I think not on my father	82
	Timon of Athens
	Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall	83
	O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth	85
	King Lear
	Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law	87
	I heard myself proclaimed	88
	Yet better thus, and known to be contemned	89
	Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are	89
	Macbeth
	The raven himself is hoarse	90
	If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well	91
	Is this a dagger which I see before me	92
	She should have died hereafter	93
	Antony and Cleopatra
	I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and	94
	Pericles, Prince of Tyre
	How courtesy would seem to cover sin	95
	Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!	96
	Coriolanus
	O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn	97
	The Winter's Tale
	I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty	98
	Cymbeline
	The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense	100
	Is there no way for men to be, but women	102
	I see a man's life is a tedious one	103
	Yes, sir, to Milford Haven. Which is the way?	104
	Most welcome, bondage! For thou art a way	105
	The Tempest
	All the infections that the sun sucks up	107
	Here's neither bush nor shrub	108
	Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves	109
	Henry VIII
	So farewell - to the little good you bear me	110
	The Two Noble Kinsmen
	Banished the kingdom? 'Tis a benefit	112
	Why should I love this gentleman? 'Tis odds	113
	I am very cold, and all the stars are out too	114
	Yet I may bind those wounds up, that must open	115
	Index of First Lines	119