How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
 William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Richard II
Topic men life music
Date 1595
Language English
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“Nor I, nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleas'd till he be eas'd With being nothing. [The music plays]
Music do I hear? ha, ha! keep time. How sour sweet music is
When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear To check time broke in a disorder'd string; But, for the concord of my state and time, Had not an ear to hear my true time broke. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;” source

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