The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd in shade, doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again.


The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, l. 1033-1036

William Shakespeare Quotes

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd in shade, doth sit, Long after...

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd in shade, doth sit, Long after...

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd in shade, doth sit, Long after...

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd in shade, doth sit, Long after...