 For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 118by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 420 pages
...heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to...gods, with all your thunderbolts ; Dash him to pieces ! Cos. I denied you not. Bru. You did. Cas. I did not : he was but a fool. That brought my answer back.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to...gods, with all your thunderbolts Dash him to pieces ! Cas. I denied you not. Cas. I did not : he was but a fool, That brought my answer back. — Brutus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to...gods, with all your thunderbolts Dash him to pieces ! Cas. I denied you not. Cas. I did not : he was but a fool, That brought my answer back. — Brutus... | |
 | Recitations - 1913 - 624 pages
...heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to...gods, with all your thunderbolts: Dash him to pieces ! Cos. I denied you not. Bru. You did. Cos. I did not : he was but a fool That brought my answer back.... | |
 | Harold C. Goddard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 410 pages
...heart And drop my blood for drachmas than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to...legions, Which you denied me. Was that done like Cassius? He will not wring gold from the peasants by any indirection. But he will take it, even demand it, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 262 pages
...for gold to pay my legions. Which you denied me ; was that done like Cassius ? Should I have answered Caius Cassius so ? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,...gods, with all your thunderbolts, Dash him to pieces! CASSIUS I denied you not. BRUTUS You did. CASSIUS I did not. He was but a fool That brought my answer... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Assassination - 1998 - 276 pages
...legions Ithree syllablesi have collapsed into moral chaos. Should I have answered Caius Cassius so ? 1 30 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such...gods, with all your thunderbolts, Dash him to pieces ! CASSIUS I denied you not. BRUTUS You did. CASSIUS I did not. He was but a fool That brought my answer... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 150 pages
...legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius? Should I have answered Caius Cassius so? 130 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous To lock such...gods, with all your thunderbolts: Dash him to pieces! CASSIUS I denied you not. "0 BRUTUS You did. CASSIUS I did not. He was but a fool That brought my answer... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash yIW v < <3?bx uQ]6zxz u u t){ r u u u/u 'Q(Q x x x;xI{J{ CASSIUS. I denied you not. MARCUS BRUTUS. You did. CASSIUS. I did not: — he was but a fool that brought... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...with gold to pay his soldiers, and insisting in the same speech on his own integrity, Brutus inveighs, "When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, / To lock such...with all your thunderbolts, / Dash him to pieces!" (4.3.79-82). "Tear him to pieces!" cries an anonymous plebeian of Cinna the poet (3.3.28). That the... | |
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