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
| Russell Jackson, Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1993 - 246 pages
...as he, You would have slipped like him; but he, like you, Would not have been so stern. (n. ii.64-6) 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. (n.ii. 136-41) In Act Two, Scene... | |
| 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... | |
| Charles H. Frey - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...how he "would have slipped" sexually (70), longed for Angelo's "potency" (72), and asked Angelo to "Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart...what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault" (34143), but also the very sound of her voice and look of her face enforce the sexual appeal of her... | |
| Robert B. Bennett - Drama - 2000 - 204 pages
...links the Pharisees with the adulteress by inviting anyone who is without sin to cast the first stone: 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. (136-40) The fault she bids... | |
| Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 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 (Aside) She speaks, and... | |
| Leon Garfield - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 328 pages
...such fantastic tricks before high heaven as makes the angels weep!" Then, in softer tones she urged: "Go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart...If it confess a natural guiltiness, such as is his — " Lord Angelo had risen to his feet. Lucio could see that he was deeply agitated. His fists were... | |
| Peter Holland - Drama - 2001 - 398 pages
...he should exercise mercy towards her brother who has, after all, been convicted for the same crime. 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 (2.2. 140-5) This is a claim,... | |
| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2001 - 424 pages
...tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. (ni 17) Isabella later uses the same argument as Escalus: . . . 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. (n. ii. 136) We are reminded... | |
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