 | Grenville Pigott - Eddas - 1839 - 426 pages
...Oberon and Titania are thus described : " The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The plowman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'da beard. The seasons alter, hoary headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, Fair Freya shall sit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...proud, That they have overborne their continents. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat ; and the green corn Hath rotted, ere his youth attained a beard. The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain... | |
 | Grenville Pigott - Eddas - 1839 - 426 pages
...Oberon and Titania are thus described : " The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The plowman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain 'da beard. The seasons alter, hoary headed frosts, Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...proud, That they have overborne their continents: The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat; and the green corn Hath...beard : The fold stands empty in the drowned field, The crows are fatted with the murrain flock ; The nine-men's morris is fill'd up with mud; And the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...proud, That they have overborne their continents: The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, ng's face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?...miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour murrion flock; The nine-men's-morris is fiu'd up with mud; And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,... | |
 | Carmen Añón Feliú - Gardens - 1996 - 284 pages
...found in Shakespeeare's Midsummer Night's Dream where Titania speaks of unseasonable summer weather: «The nine men's Morris is fill'd up with mud, and...quaint mazes in the wanton green for lack of tread are indistinguishable.» The saffron walden turf maze is the oldest surviving to be found in Essex; a mediaeval... | |
 | Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...the marital discord, the debate and dissension, between the King and Queen of Faeries: The nine-men's morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are indistinguishable. The human mortals want their winter cheer: No night is now with hymn or carol blest.... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...though we know this only in their absence, only by what happens when they fail to be performed; ". . . the quaint mazes in the wanton green, / For lack of tread, are undistinguishable," says Titania. "The human mortals want their winter here" (ni99-1o1). In the absence of these revels... | |
 | Phyllis Siefker - History - 1997 - 232 pages
...proud That they have overborne their continents. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...peak by the conjuncture of climatic disorder ['The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, / The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn / Hath rotted ere his youth attain'da beard' (II. i. 93-95)] and military expenditure," which together "left social perceptions and public policy... | |
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Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke... 
