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" There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. "
The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: Twelfth night. Measure ... - Page 184
by William Shakespeare - 1793
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Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern

James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - Manchester (England) - 1836 - 566 pages
...Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophecy, With a near aimf of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which, in their seeds Ami weak beginnings, lie intreasured. SlIAKSPEARE. THOMAS WEST— LORD DE LA...
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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all, That e ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood...
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Eve Effingham: Or, Home, Volume 1

James Fenimore Cooper - 1838 - 936 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life. King Hen»y IV. THE following morning the baronet breakfasted in State-street. While at table little...
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Shakespeare and the Triple Play: From Study to Stage to Classroom

Sidney Homan - Drama - 1988 - 248 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured. (3.1.80-85) Indeed, as EMW Tillyard has pointed...
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Shakespeare's Courtly Mirror: Reflexivity and Prudence in All's Well that ...

David Haley - Drama - 1993 - 332 pages
...when the future seems to be hatching — when, as Warwick tells King Henry, "a man may prophesy, / With a near aim, of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life, who in their seeds / And weak beginning lie intreasured" (2H4 III. i. 8285) — at such moments, the...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time;...
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Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen

Victor Gordon Kiernan - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...urging that such forecasts have no incomprehensible warrant. From knowledge of the past we can prophesy With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured, but go on to become ‘the hatch and brood...
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Shakespeare at Work

John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...all men's lives Figuring the natures of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. (2 Henry IV, 3. i. 75-80) The eventless, unpeopled...
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre

Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time....
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King Richard II

Margaret Shewring - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 228 pages
...all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased: The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ... Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my [sic] throne, The time...
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