John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
1766 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 1766 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question’d me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth ’scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travels’ history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak,—such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear 1 Would Desdemona seriously incline. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. [text] |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |
| Note 1. ”These things to hear” in Singer. [back] |