...that we propose to specify. We can see that it was not without knowledge he made Autolycus sing : — A merry heart goes all the day ; Your sad tires in a mile-a. II. We need scarcely remind our readers that facilities of locomotion in the Elizabethan age were scanty...

...compressed and destructive experience of tragedy and the reversal of tragic time that occurs in Act IV: Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent...heart goes all the day. Your sad tires in a mile-a. (IV.iii. 123-26) Like Autolycus, Act IV jogs on merrily in the mode of pastoral comedy, and it seems...

...Autolycus the Rogue in The Winter's Tale, we may begin: Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily lient the stile-a: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. PART ONE The Glass Wall TO the distant observer the nature of time appears to be intuitively obvious,...

...Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. (I, ii) 180 aBoBe: FaPoR; FPL; GN; HelP; NOCV; NOEC; PoEL-3; TOP "JE" (pseudonym of GEORGE WILLIAM (IV, ii) BoTP; E1L; FaBoCh; GN; OBSC; OxBSP; TrGrPo 181 When daffodils begin to peer. With heigh! the...

...sheep-shearing. AUTOLYCUS Prosper you, sweet sir! Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way And merrily hent...heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. [Exit Shepherd] [seize [Exit] [from The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene i] Arrangement C Giuan West l995....

...ale' (IV. iii. 8), 'me and my aunts/While we lie tumbling in the hay' (IV. iii. 11-12); and later that 'a merry heart goes all the day/ Your sad tires in a mile-a' (IV. iii. 121-2). 30 Alan Sinfield, Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident...

...coffers, Autolycus sings his way off to the sheep-shearing with, I think, another key character line: A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. (1v.iii. 103-4) The sheep-shearing is a monstrously difficult scene to pull off. Its jollity can feel...

...metaphoric references to the heart might be usefully somaticized, moreover, as when Autolycus sings, "A merry heart goes all the day, / Your sad tires in a milea" (4.3.123-24). To translate in one's mind "heart" to "disposition" is to begin the gradual, dispiriting...

...Mary sewed it when she was not sewing shrouds. He runs, he's elated, he runs, he's cock-a-hoop. Your merry heart goes all the day. (Your sad tires in a mile-a.) As for John Shakespeare, bold butcher Jack, on this hottest day in living memory he's sweating like...

...Jeremías B. Richter. Gc, stickle, stile, sty, rising on the eye. From OE stigrap: step rope, stirrup. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent...heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. -The Winter's Tale stel: put, put on; solid, firm. This is an expansion of the root sta. Gk stellein:...