 | Rolf Soellner, Gary Jay Williams - Pessimism in literature - 1979 - 264 pages
...the bandits: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief. And her...tears; the earth's a thief. That feeds and breeds by a com posture stol'n From gen'ral excrement; each thing's a thief. (4,3.438-45) For Shakespeare's audience,... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...he declaims: I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her...sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves "3 The moon into salt tears ; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From... | |
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I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction , ' Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : . • The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt... 
