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VGW(HU.767.009
1 Jan 1767:13 (815)
A PARODY ON THE SPEECH OF TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, IN HAMLET.
To write, or not to write? That is the question.
Whether 'tis better with a pen to scribble
The flights and fancies of outrageous nonsense,
Or to lay down the quill, and cease to trouble
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But that the itch of writing for the stage
(Where Garrick with inimitable charm
Of graceful action moves) puzzles and will,
And makes us rather risk all ridicule,
Than shun the muses and forbear to rhyme.
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