...for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear. Enter a Shepherd. SHEP. I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. [Again the horns are heard] — Hark you now ! Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty...

...for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear. Enter a Shepherd. SHEP. I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. [Again the horns are heard] — Hark you now ! Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty...

...Shepherd. I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out 60 the rest; for there is nothing in the between but...fighting. — Hark you now ! — Would any but these boil'd brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this weather ? They have scar'd away two of my best...

...would there were no age between ten and threeand-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest ; 60 for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches...stealing, fighting — Hark you now! Would any but these boiledbrains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my best...

...banned drink we'd still fight. English football fan, 1985 I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Shepherd, The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet It would surely...

...through the Whole 1sland of Great Britain 1 would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, 1H.iii,58 Nor should we listen to those who say, 'The voice...

...this to say about the adolescent years: I would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there...wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, (and) fighting. Although there is no denying the timelessness of his words, it is important to remember...

...is marked by the same tone, if not the same type of complaint, seen in the Second Shepherds' Play: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." His incredulous wonder at seeing the abandoned baby echoes that of the three shepherds at Mak's cottage:...

...(1854-91). French poet. Roman, set. 1 (repr. in Collected Poems, cd. by Oliver Bernard, 1 962). 13 es' (1934). 19 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatis!, poet. Shepherd, in The Winter's Tale, act 3, so...

...whip. This, surely, is what the old shepherd in The Winter's Tale is grumbling about when he wishes there were "no age between ten and three-and-twenty,...child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting" (3.3.58). The old shepherd's upper limit appears to derive from contemporary work conditions as well....