| Part 1 | I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. |
| Part 2 | I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises… |
| Part 3 | … and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this godly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory… |
| Part 4 | … this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave, o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire… |
| Part 5 | … why it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours |
| Part 6 | What a piece of work is a man – how noble in reason; how infinite in faculties, in form and moving; how express and admirable in action; how like an angel in apprehension; how like a god; the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals. |
| Part 7 | And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me – nor women neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. |
Hamlet What A Piece of Work is a Man
September 5, 2019