{"id":2645,"date":"2015-03-24T18:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2015-03-24T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:04:13","slug":"on-fear-and-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"On fear and comfort."},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it not monstrous that this player here,
\nBut in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
\nCould force his soul so to his own conceit
\nThat from her working all his visage wanned,
\nTears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
\nA broken voice, and his whole function suiting
\nWith forms to his conceit? And all for nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\nFor Hecuba!<\/p>\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
\nThat he should weep for her? What would he do
\nHad he the motive and the cue for passion
\nThat I have? He would drown the stage with tears
\nAnd cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
\nMake mad the guilty and appall the free,
\nConfound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
\nThe very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
\nA dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak
\nLike John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
\nAnd can say nothing<\/p>\n

Am I a coward?
\nWho calls me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153villain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Breaks my pate across?
\nPlucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
\nTweaks me by the nose? Gives me the lie i’ th’ throat
\nAs deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?<\/p>\n

‘Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be
\nBut I am pigeon-livered and lack gall
\nTo make oppression bitter, or ere this
\nI should have fatted all the region kites
\nWith this slave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wanned, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? 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