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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet.) | 1 |
| I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver Of my whole course of love. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (The Moor to the Senate.) | 2 |
| This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unreasonable. Shakespeare.—King John, Act IV. Scene 2. (Pembroke to the King, on his being crowned a second time.) | 3 |
| And what so tedious as a twice-told tale? Pope.—The Odyssey, Book XII. last Line. Akenside.—Pleasures of Imagination, Book I. Line 220. Lloyd.—New River Head. | 4 |
| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 4. (Lewis, on seeing the grief of Arthur’s Mother at his death.) | 5 |
| Hear, till unheard, the same old slabber’d tale. Dr. Young.—Night III. Line 337. | 6 |
| And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 67. | 7 |
| ’Tis an old tale, and often told. Walter Scott.—Marmion, Canto II. Stanza 27. | 8 |
| I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as ’twas said to me. Walter Scott.—Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto II. Stanza 22, last Line. | 9 |
| Thereby hangs a tale. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 1. (Clown); Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Scene 4; Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Scene 1; As You Like It, Act II. Scene 7. | 10 |
| Mark, now, how plain a tale shall put you down. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (Hal to Falstaff.) | 11 |
| An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act IV. Scene 4. (Queen Elizabeth to Richard.) | 12 |
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