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" twill be eleven/ And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 139
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 1995 - 424 pages
...'Thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour...to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.' (2.7.18-28) The idealizations of the pastoral world, with its emphasis on the natural cycle, are mocked...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...Thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour,...chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative. (2. 7. 20-31) What the anti-chronological games in the Arden scenes of AYLI amount to is a reduction...
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How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs

Neal R. Norrick - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 236 pages
...the world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, 25 And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then,...and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." When I did hear ... — Quoted evaluative argument in longer speech III v 57 Know yourself Know thyself ROS. . . ....
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Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, And so from hour to hour,...to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." [II.vii.20-28] Touchstone's performance here is not particularly clever, at least as Jaques reports...
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The Curate Shakespeare As You Like it: A Play

Don Nigro - Theater - 1986 - 104 pages
...—quoth he— CLOWN. — how the world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was nine. And after one hour more twill be eleven; and so, from hour to hour,...to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale. the motley fool thus moral on the time my lungs began to crow like chanticleer that fools should be...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 134 pages
...we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:46 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, And so from hour to hour,...thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like Chanticleer,47 30 That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh, sans intermission, An...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...the Heart, -Reflections on Writing" (1947). 5 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one y. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury...make it up. HARPER LEE (b. 1926), US aulhor. Atlicus WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-161 6), English dramalisl, poei. The "molley fool* Touchstone, reported by...
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Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...moralized: Thus we may see ... how the world wags: Tis but an hour ago since it was nine. And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour....to hour we rot. and rot. And thereby hangs a tale. (II.7.23-8) Despite the apparent irrelevance of time in the forest. mortality remains an imperative:...
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Looking Into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern Development

Y. S. Brenner - Business & Economics - 508 pages
...growth.34 Demand Stimulated Growth 'Tis bul an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more ìwill be eleven: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and...to hour, we rot and rot: And thereby hangs a tale '. A fool in As you like it. Act II Sc. IV. 26 The regions where domestic markets played a most obvious...
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Literary Translation: A Practical Guide

Clifford E. Landers - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 228 pages
...jester Touchstone's speech in As You Like It: Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour,...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. most readers need a glossary to fully apprehend him. Chaucer borders on a foreign language; Beow;H//requires...
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