 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pàgines
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world bur grief and woe? О RCY. I will not sing. HOTSPUR. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 286 pàgines
...retyred and gyven to studdy'. 21 Robert Parsons and the plight of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian king O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. To sit upon a hill, as I do now; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - 2005 - 392 pàgines
...muses on the pains of high office. He states a desire to be 'no better than a homely swain, / To sit upon a hill as I do now, / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, / Thereby to see the minutes how they run' (2.5.22— 25). 43 His reverie is rudely awakened by the entry of 'A... | |
 | John F. McDiarmid - 2007 - 328 pàgines
...muses on the pains of high office. He states a desire to be 'no better than a homely swain, / To sit upon a hill as I do now, / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, / Thereby to see the minutes how they run' (II, iii, 22-5). 26 His reverie is rudely disturbed by the entry of 'A... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - 2007
...especially important, because it features Henry VI as a Spenserian author-figure, the shepherdking: 'O god! methinks it were a happy life / To be no better than a homely swain; / To sit upon a hill, as I do now, / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point' (3 Henry VI... | |
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O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring... 
