Rumour

Open your ears; for which of you will stop

The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?

I, from the orient to the drooping west,

Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold

The acts commenced on this ball of earth.

~ Rumour in Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare ~

The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd,

Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;

And all who told it added something new,

And all who heard it made enlargements too,

In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew.

Thus flying east and west, and north and south,

News travell'd with increase from mouth to mouth.