Fancy

Fancy

Tell me where is Fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourishèd?Reply, reply.It is engender’d in the eyes,With gazing fed; and Fancy diesIn the cradle where it lies.Let us all ring Fancy’s knell:I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.Ding, dong, bell.

Tell me where is Fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourishèd?Reply, reply.It is engender’d in the eyes,With gazing fed; and Fancy diesIn the cradle where it lies.Let us all ring Fancy’s knell:I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.Ding, dong, bell.

Tell me where is Fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?How begot, how nourishèd?Reply, reply.It is engender’d in the eyes,With gazing fed; and Fancy diesIn the cradle where it lies.Let us all ring Fancy’s knell:I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.Ding, dong, bell.

Tell me where is Fancy bred,

Or in the heart or in the head?

How begot, how nourishèd?

Reply, reply.

It is engender’d in the eyes,

With gazing fed; and Fancy dies

In the cradle where it lies.

Let us all ring Fancy’s knell:

I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell.

Ding, dong, bell.

Shakespeare.


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