 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...  Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 19by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
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...The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. " Your obedient servants, Nov. 13, 1844. " THE PUBLISHERS." •• Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind...medicine in itself, That skins the vice o• the top '• * * * * " The prince will, in the perfection of time. Cast off his followers; and their memory... | |
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...solemnity, they had sentenced the minor but unprivileged culpril to imprisonment and the treadmill, but " Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in it That skims the vice o' the top;" and as " that in the captain's but a choleric word which in the... | |
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...solemnity, they had sentenced the minor but unprivileged culprit to imprisonment and the treadmill, but " Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in it That skims the vice o' the top ;" and as that in the captain is but a choleric word which in the... | |
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...solemnity, they had sentenced the minor but unprivileged culprit to imprisonment and the treadmill, but " Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in it That skims the vice o' the top ;" and as that in the captain is but a choleric word which in the... | |
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...profanation. That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Ang. Why do you put these sayings upon me? Isab. Because...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, what it doth know That's... | |
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...remedy; though it err like others it has yet "a kind of medicine in itself" that skins over the vice: Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That s like my brothers fault. If it confess A natural guiltiness, such as is his. Let it not sound a thought upon... | |
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...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 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... | |
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...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 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... | |
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...inferiors. But that relativism is here; it is not so above. Angelo with some irritation bites. Ang. Why do you put these sayings upon me? Isab. Because...yet a kind of medicine in itself That skins the vice o'th'top. Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's... | |
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...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... | |
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