This is no ordinary English! Old English is pretty different from modern English, and even native speakers need help with it... "for in that sleep of death...": for = because; "sleep of death" = experience after death (which is like a kind of sleep, Hamlet is thinking...) "shuffled off" = to have slowly moved away from or gotten loose from something (suggests heavy movements because of some kind of burden) "coil" = an archaic word meaning confusion or difficulty

This is Shakespearean English so the words are old fashioned and the views are from that time too, but in this speech Hamlet is contemplating suicide and asking himself whether he might still dream after he has died, and is worried that he would which is making him pause to reconsider. So in the context of this, the phrase 'for in that sleep of death'... literally means 'when I am dead'. To shuffle off this mortal coil, means 'to die'. 'Coil' on it's own simply means a spiral, usually of cable. But in this case it is being used with mortal to form the poetic term 'mortal coil' which means 'the struggles and pains of life'. He's saying 'life is hard, but being dead is like being asleep, and who knows what dreams I'll have when I've died, so maybe I shouldn't rush in.'

1 - ''for in that sleep of death...'' This means when you are in the deepest part of your sleep it is almost as if you are dead. 2 - ''shuffled off'' - It means to get rid of or to push away in this context. 3 - ''coil'' The mortal coil that Shakespeare talks about in this phrase means the troubles and problems of the world. A coil directly translated means something that is round and spiral. But you can also coil a piece of rope. Shakespeare is not easy but it is beautiful. :)

"sleep of death" = death

The passage is saying that the idea of the things dead people's souls experience might make someone think twice about the desire to die. "mortal coil" = life "shuffle off" = leave "give pause" = cause someone to re-think an action they had thought of carrying out