...world wags : 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale." When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began...

...habitation of worms, perish for a season, and revive into active agency for another generation. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot.* * To treat the subject more specifically — death is followed by decomposition, whereby the...

...world wags. 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.' (2.7.18-28) The idealizations of the pastoral world, with its emphasis...

...Touchstone's witty parody of Jaques' seven ages speech likewise stresses the element of change: 'And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot' (AYLI ii. vii. 26-7). The word 'mature' itself, however, is frequently used in a normative way,...

...live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats, And pleased with what he gets. mi n; M;.H //tr;/ And so, e can hope to leave them now is rot: And thereby hangs a tale. 101 17 As Vou Lite ft All the world's a stage, And all the men and women...

...detaehment. as mJaques's speeeh on the se\en ages ol man or Touehstone's meditation on his wateh: 'And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe. / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot' ilI.vit. 26-27 . But there is also wtnter and rough weather in the golden world; Rosalind. Celia...

...to hour it rots and rots: Jacques, quot1ng the 'fool i' the forest' in As You Like It, n. vii. 26-8: 'From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, | And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot; | And thereby hangs a tale'. 199.2 Boccaccio's Calandrino: Giovanni Boccaccio's (1313-75) Decameron,...

...ad horum: this time again; via Fr, encore. Gc, hour, year, yore. Gm Yahrzeit: anniversary. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale . . . My lungs began to crow like chanticleer That fools should be so...

...perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore. Dwight Lyman (DL) Moody And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; / And thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,...

...It (1600), "Monsieur Melancholy Jacques" reminds us that the only certainty in life is death: And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby bangs a tale. (2.7) In Hamlet (1601) a brutal crime embitters the highly refined son...