 I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 280by William Shakespeare - 1752Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 354 pages
...make both : They've made themselves, and that their fitness now Doth unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I... | |
 | Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca - Drama - 1998 - 188 pages
...imposes them. Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth an archetype of such violence: ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1998 - 390 pages
...significance and effect in the play as we have it, where the details in context are I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I... | |
 | Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. [" I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
..."How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I... | |
 | Lawrence Venuti - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 542 pages
...aile gauche," in 1974. 57 Shakespeare, 1978, 41. The original text is as follows: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling at my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face. Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains outs, had... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I... | |
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