"Tyger" Quotes from Famous Books
... cannot easily be misunderstood, I think, but misunderstood it has been—"Yes, trust them not" (trust not the players), "FOR there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his TYGER'S HEART WRAPT IN A PLAYER'S HIDE" ("Player's" in place of "woman's," in an old play, The Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York, &c.), "supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit ... — Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang |