shillishallying

Updated: May 8, 2025

"So you have got your persecutor," cried the latter with a croaking voice, "who has made you thus wretched, the lovesick godly fool, here under your roof! he has run of his own accord like a silly rabbit into the snare: and you are shillishallying about cutting his throat."

Ludwig Tieck - The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano: Tales from the German of Tieck