While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

I cannot tell how the truth may be;

I say the tale as 't was said to me.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 22.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

"Life is but an empty dream!"

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): A Psalm of Life.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,

Long, long ago, long, long ago.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839): Long, long ago.

Gentle shepherd, tell me where.

Samuel Howard (1710-1782).

Ah, tell them they are men!

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 6.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 1.

Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women

Rail on the Lord's anointed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.