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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)

729

And rail’d on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

730

And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, “It is ten o’clock:
Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags.”

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

731

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

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

732

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
That fools should be so deep-contemplative;
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

733

Motley ’s the only wear.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

734

If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm’d
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

735

I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

736

The “why” is plain as way to parish church.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

737

Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time;
If ever you have look’d on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll’d to church,
If ever sat at any good man’s feast.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

738

True is it that we have seen better days.

As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

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]

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