 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...  Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 40by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1845 - 682 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Ang. Why do you put these sayings upon me? Isab. Because authority, 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, what it doth know That's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...unworthy of that prerogative Hath yet a kind of medicio« in itself, That skins the vice o' the top :9 Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart,...it doth know That's like my brother's fault: if it confesa A natural guiftincss. such аз is his, Let it not sound a tnought upon your tongue Against... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 474 pages
...prerogative. Lucio. Art advis'd o'that ? more on't. AJUJ. Why do vou put these sayings upon me ? Isab. Because authority, though it err like others, Hath...a kind of medicine in itself, 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 276 pages
...to Isabella) Art advised o' that ? More on't. ANGELO Why do you put these sayings upon me ? ISABELLA Because authority, though it err like others, Hath...That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom, same' (Lever). Compare Tilley/Dent 132-3 That ... blasphemy An oath will be 194. i, Todie laughing... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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