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" 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. "
Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 15
by William Shakespeare - 1788
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Shakespearean Criticism

Michelle Lee - Drama - 2002 - 444 pages
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The Horned Man

James Lasdun - British - 2002 - 220 pages
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The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them

Samuel Anthony Barnett - Nature - 2001 - 220 pages
...This way of speaking becomes still more convenient in the chapters that follow. 6 ARE RATS GLUTTONS? Our natures do pursue Like rats that ravin down their...proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die. SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure If rats do think, it must often be about food. Like other rodents,...
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Shame in Shakespeare

Ewan Fernie - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 274 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 31

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...sex and is now obsessed with it, suggest that Isabella might fall too? Claudio has informed us that Liberty, As surfeit, is the father of much fast; So...every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. (1, ii, u7-20) So might not the reverse prove true for his sister, as it already has for Angelo? Could...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2002 - 258 pages
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Alec Guinness: A Life

Garry O'Connor - Actors - 2002 - 544 pages
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On Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred

Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 2002 - 296 pages
...and sentenced to die for unrestrained behavior, laments: Our natures do pursue, Like rats that raven down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. (I.ii. 120-22) In Measure for Measure, Shakespeare shows the Duke wrestling with the obligations he...
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Outspoken Essays 1922

W. R. Inge - Literary Collections - 2003 - 284 pages
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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William ..., Volume 76

1984 - 440 pages
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