 From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die.  Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 11by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane) 7 A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...of the mouse kind that infests houses and ships: to ' smell a rat' is to suspect; be on the watch. Our natures do pursue Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. Shalupeare. I have seen the time, with my long sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...Act i. Scene 1. Claudio. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint: our natures do pursue (Like rats...bane) A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die." Measure for Measure. Act i. Scene 3. Gaunt. His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last: For violent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...whom I will have merey," &c. And again : " Therefore hath he meroy on whom he will have merey," &c. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die 7. Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors. And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use ver I heard a bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to...device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find o 1 would send for certain of my creditors : And yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...intoxication, insanity. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue (Like rats...bane), A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. An historian has remarked, that " The absence of selfrestraint, with the intoxicating effects of presumptuousness,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1863 - 1458 pages
...liberty, my Lucio, liberty : As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like...proper bane,) A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. « Measure for Measure Act 1 Scene 8. t Macduff. They were suborn'd: Malcolm, and Donalbain, the king's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our nnturcs sjx-Bk so wisely under an arrest. I would send for certain of my creditors. And yet. to say the truth,... | |
 | Thomas James Serle - 1847 - 342 pages
...Heaven he was safe, and she loved him more than ever. CHAPTER VI. " Our natures do pursue, Like lats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die." Measure for Measure. IT is difficult, indeed, to rate the price at which such moments should be purchased,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravin1 down their proper bane) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die.4 Ludo. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors :... | |
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