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" Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned: and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' But... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare. .... - Page 44
by William Shakespeare - 1800
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...iv. Sc. i. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. Act iv. Sc. i. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Act'n. Sc. i. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Act'n. Sc. i. Pacing through...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 15

1878 - 920 pages
...infernal sort of fever, and the money I had saved went to the doctors. I pulled through, of course. ' Men have died, from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' I don't know how it was, but when I got up again, my brain seemed to be kind of incoherent,...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 pages
...cramp, was drownel j and the foolish chroniclers 1 of that age found it was—Hero of Sestos. But these Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent 10 the stile-a: A merry heart for love Ros. Or else she could not have the wit to do this : the wiser, the waywarder : Make the doors...
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Shakespeare : A Life: A Life

Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...cramp, was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (rv. i. 91-101) Rosalind, as 'Ganymede', has a freedom from fixed personality and propriety...
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As You Like it

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...cramp, was 97 drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was "Hero of Sestos." But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, 100 but not for love. 101 ORLANDO I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, for I protest her...
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Shakespeare and Masculinity

Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.81-3, 86-101) The word-play here on 'person' (as theatrical role, as legal agent, as...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...cramp, was drowned, and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [^.¡.65-103] HAROLD BLOOM casan. Las doncellas son mayo cuando son doncellas, pero el cielo...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...ultimate destiny. The disguised Rosalind in As You Like It, iv, 1, laughs at the lovelorn Orlando: "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." The disguised Viola turns the figure in Twelfth Night, ii, 4, picturing her own forced restraint...
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As You Like It

Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 36 pages
...would die for love of Rosalind but 'Ganymede' scoffs at this romantic idea. To die for love? . . . men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv Sc i Orlando soon has to hurry away to keep an appointment. Rosalind eagerly awaits...
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The Death of Comedy

Erich Segal - 2009 - 612 pages
...connotations of "dying." In As You Like It, Shakespeare's Rosalind debunked this poetic hyperbole: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.57 Yet here in Shakespeare's last "happy comedy" we have something closer to a real death....
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