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How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
Julius Cæsar (1599)
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
I am not so nice,
To change true rules for old inventions.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
Richard II (1595)
The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.
Richard II (1595)
Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
The Tempest (1611)
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.
Hereditary
Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,
Than what he chooses.
Farewell
The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.
Henry VIII (1613)
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Time's the king of men,
He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Do not be forever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Let's take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change. -
So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate.
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 up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.