...In As You Like It, Shakespeare mocked the troubadours' convention of dying for love when he writes, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them. But not for love." The troubadours and Shakespeare know that hearts break but they do not stop beating. For...

...drown'd; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was "Hero of Sestos." But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (IV.i.94-108) At the same time, Rosalind confesses to Celia how much she loves Orlando: "O...

...with the tart: 'I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary' (2.4.1-3), or Rosal1nd herself: 'Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love' (4.1.1OO).13 The world of high male literary culture constantly receives a shot in the arm...

...... I drove my Suitor from his mad humour of love, to a living humour of madness... [3.2.4 17] . . . men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (4.1.106) . . . men are April when they woo, December when they wed: Maids are May when they...

...view, she maintains mischievously. The accounts of the tragic fates of legendary lovers are "lies": "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (IV.i.96-98). Rosalind even goes so far as to put Orlando through a mock nuptial, with Celia...

...should be whipped, but she also knows that the whippers are in love too. When Rosalind concludes that "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (4. 1 . 1 0 1 -2 ), the tone of the line, according to Barber, suggests a range of subtle...

...Shakespeare's As You Like It, says of various literary examples of the love-death: "But these are all lies: men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love" (4.1.106-8). So, like its happier counterpart, Platonic love, the path of suffering love...

...was indeed intended to be serious literature, and Shrake's title came from Shakespeare's admonition, "Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, But not for love." An obvious heir to Brammer's The Gay Place, Shrake's novel charts a group of hip young Texans...

...she warmed her mind at the glow of Twelfth Night: the poplars of Brompton became the Forest of Arden. 'Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.' When she first came across that line, Fanny felt a thrill of recognition. Here was someone...

...drown'd ; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was - Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies: men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (wi 83-95) While in Pyramus and Thisbe tragedy was dismissed as irrelevant, here it is rejected...