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MG-A(G.776.009
4 Apr 1776:12 (1595)
To the People of Pennsylvania. Letter IV.
Alas Poor Cato!
What a buzz hast thou raised about thine ears? How canst
thou proceed in thy lucubrations? If the following
Soliloquy can yield thee any consolation thou art welcome to
place it either in front or rear of thy next letter, Thou
wilt perceive thyself more indebted for it to William
Shakespeare, than to thy friends and reader, [signed]
Hamlet.
To write or not to write; that is the question--
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to bear
Th' unlicens'd wrongs of furious party weal,
Or dip the pen into a nest of hornets
And still, by teazing, wake them? To write, to answer --
No more? And by a single answer end
The thousand scorns and heart-aches which an author
Is born to suffer . . . [24 more
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