William Shakespeare on Pregnancy
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“He ploughed her, and she cropped.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“She's quick; the child brags in her belly already.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”
- William Shakespeare, S)
“Timon: Wilt dine with me, Apemantus? Apemantus: No, I eat not lords. Timon: An thou shouldst, thou'dst anger ladies. Apemantus: O, they eat lords. So they come by great bellies. Timon: That's a lascivious apprehension. Apemantus: So thou apprehend'st it, take it for thy labour.”
- William Shakespeare, S)