<P> There are numerous snowclones based the phrase, such as "To hack or not to hack", etc . </P> <P> The virtuoso soliloquy in Carl Michael Bellman's Fredman's Epistle "Ack du min moder" was described by the poet and literary historian Oscar Levertin as "the to - be-or - not - to - be of Swedish literature". </P>

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil