TELL me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
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.
All. Ding, dong, bell.
More verses by William Shakespeare
- Full Fathom Five
- Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
- Hark! Hark! The Lark
- Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
- A Lover's Complaint