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PARODY On Hamlet's Soliloquy, ssTo Be, or Not to Pa 51
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 On Hamlet's Soliloquy, s'To Be, or Not to

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 By Printer. To Print, or not to Print, that is the oues- tion, Whether it's nobler in the mind to suffer ie loss and disappointments of our eY'ry effort To gain an honest livelihood, or quit the business, And end the contest. To stop-to add no more To landlords, poets and paper makers bills, And every other expense incurred by prin- ters, Is really consummation to be wished. To die-to leep-perchance, to dream; Ay. there's the rub; perhaps like Egypt's sons of old, Who died insoivent, he denied burial. Mayhap. the corpse for debt may be de. tained, For British laws permit and closely held In durance vile, till the last farthing' s paid. There's the respect that makes ns bear the burden Ofweekly cares aud tolls without reward; For wlfo would else endure the loss of time, Of labor and of cash, the duns of credi- tors, The negligence of debtors. and the string Or evils unsuccessful artisans suffer, When he himself might quit them all for.

 ever, By bare advertisement Who would

 make His press and pressmen groan beneath the

 weight Of sheets ou sheets-and types, week.,

 compos'd To gratify the gen ral thirst for news: Pore over books, and cull th' instructive

 page, Or seek in ey'ry quarter of the earth, Collect and publish every tale that goes, ssAnd paint the manners living as the,

 rise" But that the dread of what may follow, a The tannts of enyious brethren Of tn,

 type, The scof of enemies, (for who withou

 them?1 Silent suspicious of weIlmeaning friends Who think we should have struggled long

 er for success, Aa1 utter ruin to our fondest hopes, Puzzles the will, and makes ns rather bea Tie ills that now We have, than fly to ,oth

 CTS We know not, and perhaps, might hay,

 avoided. Thus Is the Printer at stand, and canno Between two sad alternatives determine

 dESeLfsH PApER.]