 God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring...  The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies - Page 298by Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 628 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1844 - 624 pages
...Henry, of that name the Sixth : — " Ah, me ! methinks it is a quiet life To sit upon a bench, as 1 do now ; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run — How many make the hour full complete — How many hours bring about the day — How many days will... | |
 | Albert Edmund Waugh - 1973 - 260 pages
...additional grandchildren as an industrious and persistent stork may bless me with in times to come O God! methinks it were a happy life. To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as l do now. To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - 1990 - 232 pages
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О hee? EGEUS. Full of vexation come I, — How many makes the hour full complete; Hew many hours brings about the day; How many days will... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...get on better without him, he meditates on how much happier he would be as a peasant than as a king. O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...shepherd: Would I were dead, if God's good will were so! For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better...by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run — How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world bur grief and woe? О RCY. I will not sing. HOTSPUR. 'Tis the next way to...two hours; and so, come in when ye will. [Exit. OW — How many makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings about the day; How many days will... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 pages
...generalized feeling that results is phrased by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian pastoralism : O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...God sive nature has ordered things to their proper place, and man has natural obligations to fulfill. "O God! Methinks it were a happy life / To be no better than a homely swain. / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. ... So many hours must I tend my flock, / So many hours must... | |
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