.../And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; /And so, from honr 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 to crow like chanticleer,...

.../ And after an 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 to crow like chanticleer,...

...love story of Shakespeare's As You Like It: "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). 2. It's worth noting that Whitman is writing this poem at the close of the American Civil War....

...Marigold's neck a large blood-stained card proclaimed: From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tail and his hag. "What?" Abby whispered, terrified. "Don't come in," I ordered. I walked over to the...

...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. (As You II 7 23-8) The fool is a touchstone, a marker for the journey. His tale to everyone, whether...

...terror of ageing and disease. As in Shakespeare: "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." And beneath the fear of loss, a variation on the fear of change, lies a wound about which the therapeutic...

...the space below to record your thoughts. Chapter Four And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, then from hour to hour we rot and rot, and thereby hangs a tale. William Shakespeare Have you congealed yet? Do you know people who have? I've been around so many middle-aged...

...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." (2.7.20-28) Sicinius uses the simpler, earlier method of measuring the shadow in Coriolanus when he...

...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.' (Il.vii) But Touchstone's mock-philosophical account is made laughable by its homonyms and language...

...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 to crow like chanticleer, 30...