...back/ This is an altered version of Ulysses' speech in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 3.3.145-46: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion." 17.8 Rolla/ The title character of a poem by Alfred de Musset (1810-57). Rolla lives a life of debauchery,...

...speaks the best poetry in the play in the service of persuading Achilles of this terrible conclusion: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, g8 Troilus and Cressida A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which...

...reconstructing it in simile form. Consider the transformation effected in these lines from Troihis and Cressida: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. When they are rewritten as, Time is, my lord, like someone with a wallet at his back Wherein he puts...

...one's relatives, blameless actions: that is a supreme blessing. Sutta Nipata, II, 4 (3rd century neE) 7 Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III, iii, 145-6 (? 1602) 8 1 give no alms. For that I am...

...to get out of his tent and take action, Ulysses used the argument that the past is soon forgotten: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. These scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as...

...Reyes), tal vez la advertencia de Ulises es otra descortés bofetada a Jonson, cuyo deseo de emin. Uliss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, / A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. /Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd / As fast...

...no doubt in part—because their teeth were bad. As a character in Troilus and Cressida reminds us, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion." Smile. Recently two of my "masters" have died. I use the word with some particularity; they were my...

...Sh.) says: 'A variation of the fable is found in Tro. &• Cress., IlI, iii, 145, where Ulysses says, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion."' But this is again a note on Johnson and not on this passage in Coriolanus. — ED.] one that loues...

...developing the kind of reflective and intellectual style we see in Ulysses' speech to Achilles on Time: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes. Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as...

...which the sequence of images of over-eating, uncurrent coin and beggary anticipate Ulysses' speech 'Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion' (3.3.145-6). Dio remarks that Perseus carried in his wallet the Gorgon's head with which to turn men...