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" Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? 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... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare ... - Page 489
by William Shakespeare - 1785
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 45

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1882 - 836 pages
...House of Lancaster : 0 God ! methinks it -were a happy life . To see the minutes how they run, TIow many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up Ihe year, How many years, &c. But Shakespeare knew better than to repeat this style of thing...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...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...many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live. When this is knows, then to divide the times:...
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Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of Existence

Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1990 - 552 pages
...swain; To sit upon the hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many make the hour full complete . . . How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend...
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The Sovereign Flower: On Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism, Together with ...

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full...many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times:...
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World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings

Library of Congress - Antiques & Collectibles - 2002 - 246 pages
...Govern ment.... London: A. Churchill, l690. Rare Book and Special Collections Division There by to see the minutes how they run; How many make the hour full...many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. \\ illiam Shakespeare, IIenry VI ^^f^^^J^...
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