 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 páginas
...the fool Touchstone observes that it is ten o'clock in the morning, he says, Thus we may see . . . how the world wags: Tis but an hour ago since it was...to hour we rot, and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. (As You II 7 23-8) The fool is a touchstone, a marker for the journey. His tale to everyone, whether... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - 2004 - 198 páginas
...his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye Says very wisely "It is ten o'clock." "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags. 'Tis but an hour...to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale." (2.7.20-28) Sicinius uses the simpler, earlier method of measuring the shadow in Coriolanus when he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 páginas
...poke, 20 And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour...motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, 30 That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh, sans intermission,... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - 2005 - 214 páginas
...it with lack-luster eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock. Thus may we see,' quoth he, 'how this world wags. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.' (Il.vii) But Touchstone's mock-philosophical account is made laughable by its homonyms and language... | |
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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. 
