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Time for a Shakespeare Quiz…on the Subject of Time

Another fiendish quiz from J D Atkinson

Dateline: 2nd January, 2007

The editor didn't have time to do this one. Honest! He didn't. Really...

Give yourself one point for identifying the play, another for identifying the speaker.

1. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
2. Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.
3. Is there no play/ To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
4. The time is out of joint…
5. It shall be what o'clock I say it is.
6. If you can look into the seeds of time…
7. Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours.
8. Then is this/ The very last time we shall speak together.
9. The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse.
10. When time is old and hath forgot itself…
11. The hour draws on: to the oak, to the oak!
12. When, spite of cormorant devouring time…
13. My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon…
14. The time of universal peace is near.
15. There's no clock in the forest.
16. Such things become the hatch and brood of time.
17. Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time…
18. I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest.
19. Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth to season.
20. The dust on antique time would lie unswept…
21. The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
22. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back…
23. …and wrinkled deep in time.
24. Small time, but in that small most greatly lived/ This star of England.
25. I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time.

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