 | Marilyn L. Williamson - 1986 - 200 Seiten
...are prepared for the burden of Spring's song at the end, even though the marriages are a year away: The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men;...cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! (5.2.908-12) All the elements of the paradigm for the reading of the middle comedies are here without... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 Seiten
...of Spring's song (one of the paired songs that ends Love's Labour's Lost, V.ii.90421). The refrain: "The cuckoo then, on every tree, / Mocks married men;.../ O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear!" "Cuckoo" equals, of course, "cuckold." 9.1026 (212:38). reverbed - The verb to reverb (reecho) occurs... | |
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...married men; for thus sings he. Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 Seiten
...reminiscent of cuckold, and its habit of Cuckoo, cuckoo!' 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he: 'Cuckoo ! 890 Cuckoo, cuckoo !' 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. WINTER (sings) When icicles hang... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...Mocks married men, for thus sings he. Cuckoo, cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. GoTS; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV BARNAHE GOUGE (1540-1594)...For friends are gone come once adversity. When mone (V, ii) BoTP; EIL; FF; FiP; HAP; HelP; InPK; NAEL-1; NBLV; NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBSC; PBBP;... | |
 | Laura Erickson - 410 Seiten
...robin is here. Its song, a two-noted "cuckoo" exactly like the clock, inspired Shakespeare to write, "The cuckoo, then, on every tree,/ Mocks married men;...cuckoo: O word of fear,/ Unpleasing to a married ear." He also wrote, "He was but as the cuckoo is in June,/ Heard, not regarded." Shakespeare made many allusions... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 Seiten
...men; for thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo" — O word of tear, Un pleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks...cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When icicles hang bv the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall.... | |
 | 229 Seiten
...And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for...cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks; When turtles tread, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! visions did appear. And this weak an О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1996 - 616 Seiten
...nightingale's: see gloss to Pleasures 3.473 (p. 461 above). 19-21: cf. Loves Labours Lost 5.2.898-902: "The cuckoo then on every tree / Mocks married men;...— O word of fear, / Unpleasing to a married ear! " ODE IV: TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES TOWNSHEND IN THE COUNTRY. MDCCL First published in 1772a; subsequently... | |
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When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O... 
