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What is the full speech in Hamlet beginning i have late but wherefore know not lost all my mirth?

You're asking for Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, which actually begins:

**"To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?"**

The line you provided, "I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe," comes from a different soliloquy in Act III, Scene II, when Hamlet is contemplating his own internal struggle and the outward appearance of grief he is expected to display.

If you'd like to see the complete text of Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be," please let me know, and I'll be happy to provide it.

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