..."Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, And so from hour to hour...to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale." (2.7.20-28) Sicinius uses the simpler, earlier method of measuring the shadow in Coriolanus when he...

...money, and manifests itself among the better-off as a terror of ageing and disease. As in Shakespeare: "And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And...hour we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale." And beneath the fear of loss, a variation on the fear of change, lies a wound about which the therapeutic...

...Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, And so from hour to hour,...I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, 30 That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh,...

...may we see,' quoth he, 'how this world wags. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour,...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.' (Il.vii) But Touchstone's mock-philosophical account is made laughable by its homonyms and language...

...of Time ;» for him, Time travels regularly : 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour,...ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. . . . (II. vii. 24-7) Determined to treat a spade only as a spade, Touchstone will not be carried away...

...through the play two main ways of seeing time. One is the Jaques-Touchstone view of inevitable decay: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then,...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. (n. vn. 26-8) Jaques's set piece on the seven ages of man is essentially an elaboration of this view....

...whose brains were enfeebled before their stomach and legs. Essays. Of Age William Shakespeare; 1 598 59 And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then,...to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii Thomas Browne; 1643 60 Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures,...

...landläufigen Existenz des Menschen wird antizipiert und ist mit seinem Zeiterlebnis gleichzusetzen: And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then...to hour, we rot and rot. And thereby hangs a tale. (II, 7, 25-28) ,Hour' und , whore' waren Homophone im 16. Jahrhundert ebenso wie , tale' and ,tail'...