. Reveille . u >?z< ou. ~^^-^^=:^-^ I, III ?^/re /Twhi^ard St^uaci The Students Soliloquy (llil/t iif>()lui;ii-s hi W. Sliakcsl>citrc.) To swipe or not to swipe — that is the question ;Whetlier tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe pangs and agonies of outrageous hungerOr to swipe a dozen pies or so,And, by eating, end them ? To swipe, to stealNo more; and by a theft to say we endThe hunger and the thousand natural cravingsThat flesh is heir to — tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To swipe, to steal—Perchance to be caught — ay, theres the rub:For in that theft of food wha

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. Reveille . u >?z< ou. ~^^-^^=:^-^ I, III ?^/re /Twhi^ard St^uaci The Students Soliloquy (llil/t iif>()lui;ii-s hi W. Sliakcsl>citrc.) To swipe or not to swipe — that is the question ;Whetlier tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe pangs and agonies of outrageous hungerOr to swipe a dozen pies or so,And, by eating, end them ? To swipe, to stealNo more; and by a theft to say we endThe hunger and the thousand natural cravingsThat flesh is heir to — tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To swipe, to steal—Perchance to be caught — ay, theres the rub:For in that theft of food what things may comeWhen we have just got out the pantry doorMust give us pause. Theres the respectThat makes calamity of so long abstinence:For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The stewards wrong, the big chiefs reproach,The pangs of being wrong, the laws insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy he himself might his desires satisfyWith a measly pic? Who would

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