That age, ache, <penury,> and imprisonment 145 Can lay on nature is a paradise 146 To what we fear of death.
CLAUDIO
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, 133
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot, 134
This sensible warm motion to become 135
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit 136
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 137
In thrilling region of thick-ribbèd ice, 138
To be imprisoned in the viewless winds 139
And blown with restless violence round about 140
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst 141
Of those that lawless and incertain thought 142
Imagine howling—’ tis too horrible. 143
The weariest and most loathèd worldly life 144
That age, ache, < penury, > and imprisonment 145
Can lay on nature is a paradise 146
To what we fear of death. 147
