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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 Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim ... - Page 184
by William Shakespeare - 1790
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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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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakspeare, Volume 70

Swynfen Jervis - 1868 - 386 pages
...wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry. Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 1. For there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Winter's Tale, iii 3. ANCHOR. An anchoret; a hermit. An anchor's cheer in prison...
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Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature

Katherine Dalsimer - 1986 - 164 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 — [III. iii. 59-63] These words were written in 1611. Shakespeare's shepherd identifies...
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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England

Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 pages
...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 ancientry, stealing, fighting. William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 1H.iii,58 Nor should we listen to those...
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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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Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences

Mary Ellen Colten, Susan Gore - 348 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, (and) fighting. Although there is no denying the timelessness of his words, it is important...
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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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The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today

Игорь Семенович Кон - 1995 - 362 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 — " — William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3 Irina Pavlovna, a...
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