William Shakespeare on Graduation
1564–1616 England
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Such a nature,
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Didst thou never hear
That things ill-got had ever bad success?
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great.
But I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal.
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