Chapter RETIREMENT to RHYME AND REASON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Pope.—Memory of a Lady, Line 9.

REVOLUTIONS.—

What various revolutions in our art
Since Thespis first sold ballads in a cart!

Foote.—Prol.to the Lyar.

RHETORIC.—

For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 81.

RHYME AND REASON.—

D. In Reason nothing
B. Something then in Rhyme.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 1. (Dumain and Biron.)

V. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?
S. Nay, I was rhyming; ’tis you that have the reason.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 1. (Valentine to Speed.) 1. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? 2. Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act III. Scene 2. (Rosalind to Orlando.)