C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Tale

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

Shakespeare.

This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shakespeare.

Who gather round, and wonder at the tale
Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,
That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand
O’er some new-open’d grave, and, strange to tell,
Evanishes at crowing of the cock.

Blair.

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