Consummation devoutly to be dreaded!

To fall—to sleep perchance—and waken

In the station-house! Aye! there’s the rub!

For in that drunken scene what falls, what

Bruises, what fines from the Mayor may come

When we have shuffled off the Jailer

Should well be pondered.—

There’s the cause that makes the drunkard’s

So short a life. For who would bear

The jeers and scorns of men; the employer’s