The passage comes from Hamlet's soliloquy: How all occasions do inform against me (4.4.35-69). Hamlet's final soliloquy appears in Q2 but not in the First Folio. Some critics argue that Shakespeare himself cut the passage from the Folio as he made revisions to his work over the years before his death. It is possible that the editors of the Folio printed a copy revised by Shakespeare, but it is highly unlikely that Shakespeare would mutilate his own work by removing such an integral part of the play. Click here for a full analysis of the soliloquy.

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