{
  "title": "Hamlet — Act 3, Scene 1 (Excerpt)",
  "source": "William Shakespeare, public domain",
  "text": "HAMLET: To be, or not to be, that is the question:\nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,\nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles\nAnd by opposing end them. To die — to sleep,\nNo more; and by a sleep to say we end\nThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks\nThat flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation\nDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;\nTo sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub.\n\n(Enter Ophelia)\n\nOPHELIA: Good my lord,\nHow does your honour for this many a day?\n\nHAMLET: I humbly thank you; well, well, well.\n\nOPHELIA: My lord, I have remembrances of yours,\nThat I have longed long to re-deliver;\nI pray you, now receive them.\n\nHAMLET: No, not I;\nI never gave you aught.\n\nOPHELIA: My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;\nAnd, with them, words of so sweet breath composed\nAs made the things more rich: their perfume lost,\nTake these again; for to the noble mind\nRich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.\nThere, my lord.\n\nHAMLET: Ha, ha! are you honest?\n\nOPHELIA: My lord?\n\nHAMLET: Are you fair?\n\nOPHELIA: What means your lordship?\n\nHAMLET: That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should\nadmit no discourse to your beauty."
}
