 | William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1848 - 74 pages
...Good-morrow, fool," quoth I : " No, sir," quoth he, " Call me not fool, till Heaven hath sent me fortune :" And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking...: Thus may we 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... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 pages
...morrow, fool,' quoth I : ' No, sir,' quoth ho, ' Call me not fool, till heaven hath sent me fortune :' And then he drew a dial from his poke ; And looking...: Thus may we see,' quoth he, ' how the world wags : "I'is but an hour ago, sinca it was nine ; And after an hour more, 'twill be eleven ; • And so,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...Good-morrtntj, fool, quoth I : Ao, str, quoth he, <' ill me not fool, lillhrnrin halh itnt me fortune : And then he drew a dial from his poke ; And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, .Says, very wisely, II it ten o'clock : V'/ittj may we set, quoth he, how the world wags : ' Tis but an hour ago, since... | |
 | Natalie Lord Rice Clark - 1922 - 208 pages
...Dial he saw the Fool studying. The Fool "drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-luster eye, Says, very wisely, it is ten oclock: Thus may we 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... | |
 | Alice Evelyn Craig - Elocution - 1926 - 542 pages
...morrow, fool," quoth I. "No, air," quoth he, "Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune " : And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking...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 ago since it -was nine ; And after one... | |
 | 1927 - 666 pages
...melancholyjacques, sauntering through the Forest of Arden, described his meeting with Touchstone the fool, who "drew a dial from his poke, and, looking on it with...lack-lustre eye, says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock.' Then came the period of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, when the Puritan hatred of display even... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...mock-philosophical irreverence with which the lazy foot of time is lazily kept at bay in the play: Jaques. And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking...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 ago since it was nine, And after one hour... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...Touchstone had responded to his courteous salutation with a standard bit of clownish pessimism: ... he drew a dial from his 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 ago since it was nine,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he, 'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.' 20 And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking...eye, Says, very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock." 'Thus we may see', quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...the absurdity of social, measurable time as Jacques expresses in As You Like It, quoting Touchstone: 'And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking...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 ago since it was nine, And after one hour... | |
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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 we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. 
