...poke, And looking on it, with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is then a' 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." [II.vii.20-28] Touchstone's performance here is not particularly clever, at least as Jaques reports...

...eye, says very wisely: CLOWN. It is ten o'clock; thus we may see— AMIENS, —quoth he— CLOWN. — how the world wags. Tis but an hour ago since it was...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...

...lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:46 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after...motley fool 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,...

...growth. HENRY MILLER (1891-1980), US author. The Wisdom of the Heart, -Reflections on Writing" (1947). 5 ter than each man of you sitting before me on this...make it up. HARPER LEE (b. 1926), US aulhor. Atlicus WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-161 6), English dramalisl, poei. The "molley fool* Touchstone, reported by...

...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...ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot, and rot, 1 3 motley. Leslie Hotson has argued that is hardly necessary, even on the the motley of the Elizabethan...

...audience that. drawing a 'dial' (a watch) from his pocket. Touchstone moralized: 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. (II.7.23-8) Despite the apparent irrelevance of time in the forest. mortality remains an imperative:...

...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.' (2.7.18-28) The idealizations of the pastoral world, with its emphasis on the natural cycle, are mocked...

...his poke And, looking on it with lackluster eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock. Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags. Tis but an hour...and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, Like the fool, Bloom too is obsessed with time. Yet there is one minuscule temporal cue which Bloom...

...Encyclopedia of Language (2nd edition), with the court jester Touchstone's speech in As You Like It: Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one...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...

...we may see,' quoth he 'how the world wags. / 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, / And after an hour more 'twill be eleven. / And so from hour to...motley fool thus moral on the time / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative, / And I did laugh sans intermission...