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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Tale

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

Shakespeare.

  • This act is an ancient tale new told;
  • And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
  • Being urged at a time unseasonable.
  • Shakespeare.

  • Who gather round, and wonder at the tale
  • Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,
  • That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand
  • O’er some new-open’d grave, and, strange to tell,
  • Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
  • Blair.