 | Steven G. Kellman - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 412 pages
...VIII (III, ii, 363-64) — a self-pitying soliloquy in which Cardinal Wolsey describes himself as left "Weary and old with service, to the mercy / Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me" — announces the theme: senescence. This would be just the first installment... | |
 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...wonderfully depicted in his earlier soliloquy: I have ventur'd, Like wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my...old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. (lines 358—64) That these lines may be by Fletcher rather than Shakespeare... | |
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This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. 
