 Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...  The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes - Page 64by William Shakespeare - 1745Full view - About this book
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...present instant. As Ulysses tells an Achilles piqued that the glory of his past deeds has been forgotten, "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, / Wherein he puts alms for oblivion": For Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, And with his... | |
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