Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Stay
1.Stay’d it long?
2.While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
3.Longer, Longer!
2.Not when I saw it.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Hamlet and Horatio.)
While yet I speak, the shade disdains to stay,
In silence turns, and sullen stalks away.
Pope’s Homer.—The Odyssey, Book XI. Line 691. (Ulysses on the shade of Ajax.)