 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor ? Ha ! have you eyes ? You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment ; and what judgment Would step from this...  The plays of william shakespeare. - Page 240by William Shakespeare - 1765Full view - About this book
 | George Washington Blagden - Massachusetts - 1835 - 42 pages
...it were not unreasonable to ask their accuser, in the language of the Dane to his mother : ' Couhl you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor ? ' With all their disdain of those pleasures that not unfrequently enervate a people, and accompany... | |
 | Charles Marowitz - Drama - 1988 - 64 pages
...life of crime and became the four-hundredand-first member of the Four Hundred. "Have you eyes, Jody?" "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?" O consider, Jody — (Jody turns tentatively to Jesse.) JESSE JAMES. That's a pretty picture Jody,... | |
 | Steven Berkoff - Drama - 1990 - 228 pages
...could now actually compare the two figures. I returned to Gertrude, still on the floor, centre stage. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed And batten on this moor? Once more I use her cruelly, twisting her round from left to right. It appears to be more cruel than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgement; and what judgement Would... | |
 | Evangeline Machlin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 268 pages
...husband./ Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildew 'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. /Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?/Ha! have you eyes?/ You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame,... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...like the same activity: the imagery of devouring common to both tends to flatten out the distinction. "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this moor?" Hamlet asks his mother (3.4.66-67), insisting again on a difference that seems largely without substance,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 1006 pages
...the animal-feed imagery, echoing his first soliloquy's complaint of Gertrude's voracious appetite: Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed And batten on this moor? He has dared to hold her chin to make her look. The son handling the mother. A thick sensuality may... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heydey in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...pale cast of thought" (3. i. 83). There are also more immediate riddles. His mother — how could she "on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor" (3.4.67)? The ghost — which may be a devil, for "the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...husband. Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment Would... | |
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