SHAKESPEARE AND TIME.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6377, 15 July 1916, Page 1

SHAKESPEARE AND TIME.

A London writer has discovered that in Shakespeare's plays one way lind a quotation for every hour in the da v. Thus : "The bell then beating one. "—Hamlet. "Sure, Luciann, it is two o'clock." —Comedy or Errors. "The clock hath stricken three." —Julius Cnesas. "How far into the morning is it, lords I'' " Upon the stroke of four." —Richard 111. " At live o'clock 1 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." j —Julius Caesar. "Its supper time, my lord. "It's nine o'clock." Richard 111. "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 that takes the reader round the clock.