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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 1666 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. [text] |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |
| Note 1. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.—Robert Herrick: Sorrows Succeed. Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other’s heel. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, night iii. line 63. And woe succeeds to woe.—Alexander Pope: The Iliad, book xvi. line 139. [back] |
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