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 15by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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