 | William Shakespeare - 1907 - 266 pages
...proper to times of peace, as the fife to times of war. Compare Much Ado About Nothing, n. iii. 13-15. Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - German literature - 1766 - 534 pages
...halt by them: 10 Why, I (in this weak piping time of peace) Have no delight to pass away the time; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...deformity. And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, 15 To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined, to prove a villain1 ! fo Ijore id) einen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 476 pages
...halt by them j — Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days — I am determined to prove a villain, go And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...halt by them ; — Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass, away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions 3 dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...as I halt by them; Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,7 By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 408 pages
...as I halt by them ; Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...deformity ; And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,6 To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 510 pages
...halt by them ; — Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 584 pages
...halt by them ; — Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; rdson ... J. Walker ... R. Faulder and Son ... Scatcherd and Letterman ... [and 11 others] And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions ' dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 562 pages
...of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant1 on mine own deformity : And therefore, — since I...well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions ' dangerous, By drunken prophecies,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 384 pages
...delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity :7 And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,*...well-spoken days,* — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures1 of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,2 By drunken phrophecies,... | |
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Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace... 
