 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No. The wren...Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets. To't,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shall not die. Die for adultery? no. The wren goes to't,...To't luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers. Behold yond simp'ring dame, Whose face between her forks presages snow, That minces virtue, and does shake... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...ch. 2(1850). Referring to the scarlet letter of Hester Prynne, standing for Adulteress. 6 Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery! No, the wren...fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive. Adulthood/Adult Development 1 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought... | |
 | Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence - Animal sacrifice - 1997 - 262 pages
...121). The idea that the wren is a fornicator is expressed by Shakespeare's King Lear, who cries, . . . Die for adultery? No. The wren goes to't and the small...fly Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive. (Act IV, Scene 6) Conversely, the wren's raising of a large brood is considered an admirable trait.... | |
 | Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 324 pages
...When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No. The wren...Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween lawful sheets. (4.5)... | |
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Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. — What was thy cause? — Adultery? — Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ! No : The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight.... 
