...every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint : our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravine down their proper bane) A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die. — Sc. 3. Claudia In her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men. — Id....

...are in ourselves, how weak we are. Zd Lord Merely our own traitors." — All't Well, &e , iii. 8. " Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their...bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.'' — Manure, &c., i. 3. Not unfrequently the poor feeble unhappy sinner recognises and feels his own...

...liberty, my Lucic, 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...drink, we die. Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under ararrest, I would send for certain of my creditors : and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have...

...liberty', and he continues: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, Like rats...proper bane, A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die. (t, ii, 126-30) Unless these lines are spoken ironically, a possible but unlikely interpretion, Claudio...

...turns it into something joyless and destructive. As Claudio exclaims to Lucio when he is arrested, "Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down...bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die" (1.2.129-31). When Lucio might be forced to marry the mother of his child, she becomes "the rotten...

...consequences in view. Fierce hate and hot lust for a mortal pleasure lead men to death ; as the poet says, Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evi! ; and when we drink we die. But the point here is this, Is the end only before the mind, with...

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...to all proceedings" (IV. iv. 20-21) — and Claudio repudiates even his loving union with Juliet — "Our natures do pursue / Like rats that ravin down...bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die" (I.0.131-33). Procreation, which in the romantic comedies and in All's Well legitimizes sexuality and...

...restraint. So far we can follow him. We are familiar with this notion of abuse of liberty, but then comes: Our natures do pursue. Like rats that ravin down their...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. (1.2.120-22) Too much liberty, this seems to say, is too much poison; and a little liberty then would...

...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...could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send 120 for certain of my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom...