“I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto II, stanza 22.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“How easy it is to tell tales!”
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
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“Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Introductory verse.
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
Context: Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life,
Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
Ending, where all things end, in death at last.
“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 204 (tr. Fairclough)
“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48
“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12
“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”
Charles de Lint book Yarrow
Yarrow : An Autumn Tale (1997), p. 43