Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man
You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.
Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.
The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.