 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...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 - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...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... | |
 | Carol Brightman - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...money, and manifests itself among the better-off as a terror of ageing and disease. As in Shakespeare: "And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And...hour we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale." And beneath the fear of loss, a variation on the fear of change, lies a wound about which the therapeutic... | |
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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. 
