Shakespeare Around the Clock.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 958, 21 November 1918, Page 18

Shakespeare Around the Clock.

It lias been, discovered that in Shakespeare's plays may be found a quotation for every hour of the day. Thus: "The bell then beating one."— "Hamlet." "Sure, Liuciana, it is two o'clock."— "Comedy of Errors." "The clock hath stricken three."— "Julius Caesar." "How far into the morning is it, lords?" Upon the strike of four."—"Richard III." "At five o'clock I shall receive the money for the same."—"Comedy of Errors." "How's the day?" "On the sixth hour." —"Tempest." "Let's see. I think 'tis now some seven o'clock."—"Taming of the Shrew." "The eighth hour Be that the uppermost."—"Julius Caesar." "It's supper time, my lord. It's nine o'clock."—"Richard III." "Ten o'clock, within these three hours 'Twill be time enough to go home." —"All's Well That Ends Well." "Eleven o'clock the hour." —"Merry Wives of Windsor." "What hour now?" "I think it lacks of twelve." —"Hamlet." And tha,t» takes the reader round the clock.