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Hamlet's Soliloquy On The Turkish Bath.
HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON THE TURKISH BATH .
SCENE—Opposite the Turkish Bath , West Street , Brighton , HAM . —To bathe , or not to bathe , —that is the question : Whether 'tis Aviser in a man to suffer
The aches and pangs of disordered nature , Or to take baths against a sea of troubles , And by so doing end them ? To strip—to SAveat : No more ; and by a roast , to say Ave end The headache and a thousand natural ills
That flesh is heir to , — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be AA'ished . To strip—to SAveat : — To sweat ! and be shampooed ;—aye , there ' s the rub ; For in that heat such evils may remove We need not shuffle off this mortal coil , But save our lives . 'Tis this experience That makes so many take the Turkish bath ;
For Avho Avould bear the AA'hips and stings of pain , The consumptive ' s cough , the fat man ' s obesity , The pangs of dyspepsia or Bright ' s disease , The torturings of asthma , or the Avoes That alcohol upon the inebriate brings ,
When he himself might his deliverance take With a bare body ? Who Avould rheumatism bear , And grunt and groan under a Aveary life ? But that an ignorance of Turkish baths , Those re-discovered pleasures , unto Avhich
Wise travellers return , doth still prevail , And makes us tamely bear those ills Ave have , Heedless of remedies that AA-e knoAV not of . Thus ignorance oft makes Avretches of us all ; Ancl thus the native hue of health and vigour Is sicklied o ' er with the pallor of disease .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hamlet's Soliloquy On The Turkish Bath.
HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY ON THE TURKISH BATH .
SCENE—Opposite the Turkish Bath , West Street , Brighton , HAM . —To bathe , or not to bathe , —that is the question : Whether 'tis Aviser in a man to suffer
The aches and pangs of disordered nature , Or to take baths against a sea of troubles , And by so doing end them ? To strip—to SAveat : No more ; and by a roast , to say Ave end The headache and a thousand natural ills
That flesh is heir to , — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be AA'ished . To strip—to SAveat : — To sweat ! and be shampooed ;—aye , there ' s the rub ; For in that heat such evils may remove We need not shuffle off this mortal coil , But save our lives . 'Tis this experience That makes so many take the Turkish bath ;
For Avho Avould bear the AA'hips and stings of pain , The consumptive ' s cough , the fat man ' s obesity , The pangs of dyspepsia or Bright ' s disease , The torturings of asthma , or the Avoes That alcohol upon the inebriate brings ,
When he himself might his deliverance take With a bare body ? Who Avould rheumatism bear , And grunt and groan under a Aveary life ? But that an ignorance of Turkish baths , Those re-discovered pleasures , unto Avhich
Wise travellers return , doth still prevail , And makes us tamely bear those ills Ave have , Heedless of remedies that AA-e knoAV not of . Thus ignorance oft makes Avretches of us all ; Ancl thus the native hue of health and vigour Is sicklied o ' er with the pallor of disease .