...end in lovers' meeting, [Sir And. Excellent good, i'faith ! Sir To. Good, good. Clo. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present laughter...In delay there lies no plenty ; Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty. Youth's a stuff will not enduie. Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight....

...further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter...sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure." The above song, which is the first of the pieces allotted to the Clown in " Twelfth Night," has been...

...further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter;...In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. W. Shakespeare. COUNSEL TO GIRLS. 147 COUNSEL TO...

...to make footprints in the sands of Time When you're sitting around on your butt. ANON. What is love? tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter;...sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How amazingly to the point Shakespeare always was. What's to come is still unsure....

..."Sweet and twenty" is slang for a merry girl, after the clown's song in Twelfth Night: "What is love? 'tis not hereafter; / Present mirth hath present laughter;...sweet and twenty, / Youth's a stuff will not endure" (II.iii.48-53). When they were married in 1582 Anne Hathaway was twenty-six; Shakespeare, eighteen....

...further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter;...sweet and twenty! Youth's a stuff will not endure. When that I was and a little tiny boy When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind...

...Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth NiKht. or What You Will (3.1) What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter;...sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure. Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2.3) Love is like a child, That longs for every thing that he can...

...son doth know. 40 SIR AND. Excellent good, i'faith! SIR TOBY Good, good. CLOWN [sings:] What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter:...AND. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. SIR TOBY A contagious breath.59 50 2, 3 SIR TOBY To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.60 But...

...Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. (I, i) 173 What is love? le-field dim, Vigil for boy of responding kisses,...forget, how 1 1 1 How soon * time to time, Look'd up i (II, iii) AWP; BoLoP; CTC; E1L; ELP; FaBV; FaFP; FiP; GBL. GoJo; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InPS; LiTB;...

...son doth know. SIR ANDREW Excellent good, i'faith. SIR TOBY Good, good. FESTE (sings) What is love? Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter,...sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 50 SIR ANDREW A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. SIR TOBY A contagious breath. SIR ANDREW Very...