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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

731 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:731
AUTHOR:William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION: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. 1
ATTRIBUTION:As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.  [text]
WORKS:William Shakespeare Collection.
 
Note 1.
The same in The Taming of the Shrew, act iv. sc. 1; in Othello, act iii. sc. 1; in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 4; and in As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. Francis Rabelais: book v. chap. iv. [back]