 | Stephen J. Lynch - 2003 - 208 էջ
...have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.100-102) Say "a day," without the "ever." No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed....are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (4.1.139^12) Yet moments after undercutting the petrarchan ideals of Orlando, Rosalind revives those... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 էջ
...Rosalind returns to her normal witty symmetries to set up new categories of mockery: No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed....are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. and she goes on in still sharper patterns comparing the newlywed wife's inconstancy and jealousy to... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 էջ
...Man's life is linked with the seasons, and the process is seen as one of decay : 'No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed;...are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives' (iv. i. 130-3). This is the realist's view, and the satirist's view. But this view is part of the self-conscious... | |
 | Bennett Fairorth - 2005 - 603 էջ
...have wiped it from your memory since. I recall another reference to April, I think "As You Like It." "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed....are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives." I'm not sure exactly what Shakespeare means. You can ponder it if you wish. Anyhow, I was here the... | |
 | John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - 2006 - 280 էջ
...love "for ever and a day" (IV.i.138), she replies, "say a 'day' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed....are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives" (IV.i. 139-42). She undermines his deifying view of the "maid" by predicting, in animal similes, what... | |
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Say a day, without the ever : No, no, Orlando ; men are April when they woo, December when they wed : maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. 
