 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
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 310 pages
...connection that Isabella makes explicit in her injunction to Angelo at the end of the first interview: 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. (II.ii.i37-42) By changing places... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - Drama - 1997 - 194 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. Ang. \asidc\ She speaks, and... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...matters too explosive to be mentioned. Isabella does say, oracularly, as she skirts the unspoken taboo. Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault . . . But nowhere is any reference to her own feelings, her own bond to frail humanity, anything in... | |
| |
