...the play two main ways of seeing time. One is the Jaques-Touchstone view of inevitable decay: 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. (n. vn. 26-8) Jaques's set piece on the seven ages of man is essentially...

...Shakespeare's As You Like It, when he recalls the words of a wise fool he met, who had made him laugh: 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. (2.7.26-28) In its wisdom and its foolery, its melancholy and its laughter,...

...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.' (Il.vii) But Touchstone's mock-philosophical account is made laughable...

...do with time. In a teasing manner, as Eddie recalls the mood of the moment, the jester said: '. . . from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot . . .' Time had passed Mr Holmes Snr by. Time has passed Eddie by. Time, Eddie says to himself,...

...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...

...hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy, But winter and rough weather. 86 And so menceau 5; George Bernard Shaw 48 Dorothy Frances Gurney English poet, 1858-1 rot, And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It act 2, sc. 7, 1. 26 (1599) 87 True is it that we have...

...landläufigen Existenz des Menschen wird antizipiert und ist mit seinem Zeiterlebnis gleichzusetzen: 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. (II, 7, 25-28) ,Hour' und , whore' waren Homophone im 16. Jahrhundert...

...were enfeebled before their stomach and legs. Essays. Of Age William Shakespeare; 1 598 59 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 Like It, Act II, Scene vii Thomas Browne; 1643 60 Age doth not...

...outlook than Jaques himself. Jaques approvingly quotes Touchstone's summary of passing time, "And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour we rot and rot" (2.7.26-27), which seems to inspire his own meditation on human vanity: "All the world's a stage,...

...change which he viewed as not only inevitable but desirable. In As You Like It, Jaques says, "And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot." The Sullivan County (NT) Yellow Pages informs its readers that "the process of living means that...