Watch William Shakespeare's tragic eponymous protagonist bemoan the unweeded garden that is the world

Name: Watch William Shakespeare's tragic eponymous protagonist bemoan the unweeded garden that is the world
Uploaded: 2020-02-24T08:00:00Z
Duration: 40 s
Description: Hamlet speaks his world-weary soliloquy “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt” ( Hamlet , Act I, scene 2).

Hamlet speaks his world-weary soliloquy “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt” (Hamlet, Act I, scene 2).

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Transcript

HAMLET: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely.