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...world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, And so from hour to hour we ripe, and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot, and rot, 1 3 motley. Leslie Hotson has argued that is hardly necessary, even on the the motley of the Elizabethan...

...Touchstone, the "fool i' th' forest" of whom Jaques gives an account in As You Like It, observes that "from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe," and then "from hour to hour, we rot and rot" (II.vii.26-27). A pleasing symmetry. Molloy, no less motley, describes birth as offering a "first taste...

...is interested in time and how time can be divided, distinguished, and periodized. Jaques notes that "we ripe, and ripe, / And then from hour to hour, we rot, and rot. /Thereby hangs a tale" (2.7.26-28). Eventually the tale of ripening and rotting gets told, in Jaques's...

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...particularly inappropriate in the forest, where little light would reach through the trees. His comment that "from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,/ And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot" is a comic foreshadowing of Jaques' "Seven Ages of Man" speech at the end of this scene. Jaques' assertion...

...Touchstone's witty parody of Jaques' seven ages speech likewise stresses the element of change: 'And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot' (AYLI ii. vii. 26-7). The word 'mature' itself, however, is frequently used in a normative way, to...

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