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Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden (1904), PDF p. 106
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[108]
TO PE OR NOT TO PE
KING.
O heavy burden !
POLONIUS.
Hold on, Im coming : Ill withdraw, my lord.
[Enter Hamlet.]
HAMLET.
To pe or not to pe : that is the question :
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous stricture
Or to take arms against a closed urethra
And by abscission, end it ? To fuck : to come :
No more ; and, by a come to say we end
The cockstand and the thousand natural lusts
That flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To fuck : to come :
To come, perchance to clap ! Ay, theres the rub.
For from that come of fuck what clap may catch
When we have shuffled off this mortal stand
Must give us pause. Theres the chordee
That makes calamity of so wet dreams !
For who would bear the jerks and drops of piss,
The piss pots wrong, the bladders contumely,
The pangs of prostate gland, the pes delay,
The insolence of orchids, and the spurns
That patient merit of the urethra takes
When he himself might his quietus make
With a greased catheter. Who would sandal swill
To fart and shit under a potent purge
But that the dread of something after gleet.
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