And take an interest in cows and flowers,

Adopt a country life, and, if you can,

Become a nice domestic married man.

The prospect’s tempting. Shall I? Yes, here goes.

Ophelia, I’ve determined to propose.

From Hamlet, or, not such a fool as he looks; by the Author of “The Light Green.” W. Metcalfe & Son, Trinity Street, Cambridge, 1882.

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The Bard’s Soliloquy

To write—or not to write—that is the question—

Whether ’twere nobler in the mind to stifle