"From which Shakespeare play does the following line come ""All that glisters is not gold""?"
All that glitters is not gold wrote "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold" in 1175. Chaucer gave two early versions in English: ""But al thyng which that shyneth as the gold / Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told"" in "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale", and ""Hyt is not al golde that glareth"" in "The House of Fame". The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice", which employs the word "glisters," a 17th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, the puzzle of
All that is gold does not glitter the poem, which at that stage of composition was the only content of Gandalf's letter, reads: The second quatrain was added during the following revision: The lines were changed in stages, with many experimental forms rejected. Christopher Tolkien also suggested that ""the Sword that was Broken" ["Narsil"]" actually emerged from the verse 'All that is gold does not glitter' in the version cited above. On this view, the words ""a king may yet be without crown, A blade that was broken be brandished"" were no more than a further exemplification of the general moral. All that is gold does not