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" I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. "
The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ... - Page 241
by William Shakespeare - 1769
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As you like it ; Merchant of Venice ; Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 328 pages
...would there was no age between ten and three-and-twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest : for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. — Hark you now! — Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ...

William Shakespeare - 1863 - 464 pages
...were no age between ten and threeand-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there 60 is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting — Hark you now! Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and twoand-twenty...
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The Stratford Shakspere: Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you ...

William Shakespeare - 1867 - 642 pages
...SHBP. I would there was no age between ten and threeand-twenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, righting. — Hark you now ! — Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty...
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The Works of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well ...

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 972 pages
...would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. — Hark you now ! — Would any but these boil'd brains of nineteen, and two-and-twenty,...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Shepherd, The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist,...
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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England

Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 pages
...tenacious folly of its inhabitants. Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole 1sland of Great Britain 1 would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the...
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Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences

Mary Ellen Colten, Susan Gore - 348 pages
...keenest social observers of the day, William Shakespeare, had this to say about the adolescent years: I would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...I would there were no age between ten and threeand-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; S civil rights leader, author. TheSouls oí Black Folk, ch. 1 (1903). 4 However painful it stealing, fighting. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatis!, poet. Shepherd, in The Winter's...
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The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd: Agrarian Themes and Imagery in ...

Ordelle G. Hill - 1993 - 268 pages
..."I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." His incredulous wonder at seeing the abandoned baby echoes that of the three shepherds...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 pages
...wishes there were "no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting" (3.3.58). The old shepherd's upper limit appears to derive from contemporary work...
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