 That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's...  The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]. - Page 231edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skims the vice o' the top : Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart...if it confess A natural guiltiness, such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life. Aug. She spea-ks, and 'tis Such... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1969 - 448 pages
...alcoholic is a spineless weakling, a morally culpable wreck, I would remind you from Shakespeare : To go to your bosom, knock there! and ask your heart...If it confess a natural guiltiness such as is his, let it not sound a thought upon your tongue against my brother's life, gentle my lords. Lastly, I would... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...girl whose intellect itself stimulates him, and who directs his attention to his own human frailty Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault- (n, ii, 137-9) he finds his legal world of words unbalanced and betraying, his security threatened.... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...Lucio is surprised to find her so shrewd (' Art avis'd o' that?', line 133). But when she urges Angelo: Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart...If it confess A natural guiltiness, such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life (11. 137-42) her speech is a... | |
 | Ferdinand David Schoeman - Philosophy - 1987 - 370 pages
...brother to death for fornication: [(;]o to your bosom. Knock there, and ask your heart what it does know That's like my brother's fault; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life. This second basis cannot be... | |
 | Raman Selden - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 222 pages
...authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself That skins the vice o' th' top. Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart...If it confess A natural guiltiness, such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life. Angelo. [asiri'I She speaks,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...sudden sexual attraction to her, even perhaps of hers to him. Isabella's subsequent challenge to Angelo: Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault. (2.2.140-2) has two ironic effects: first it strikes, unwittingly, at Angelo's guilt for his past treatment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...your bosom a proverbial phrase i ii> the less those lower down the social scale (Tllley /Dent 8546.1) Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess 140 A natural guiltiness, such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...double meaning; see particularly Escalus's "some condemned for a fault alone" (2.1.40) and Isabella's "ask your heart what it doth know /That's like my brother's fault" (2.2.138-39). Though he does not work with Mariana's series of puns, Lawrence W. Hyman sees the play... | |
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