 Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 285by William Shakespeare - 1752Full view - About this book
 | Dennis Bartholomeusz - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 336 pages
...Duncan's room, she turned, stooping, and pointing her finger at Macbeth, said with ' malignant energy ' : If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.2 (1r. ii. j 5-7) Sheridan Knowles remembered her calm self-possession when she... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 236 pages
...! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood 55 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [She exits. Knocking within] Macbeth Whence is that knocking? How is't with... | |
 | Kristin Linklater - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...grave man. There is the opportunity for Lady Macbeth to hit a bizarre and chilling note when she says: If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. It is quite possible that the adrenalin makes her slightly hysterical and she... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...2.2.55ff: 1 See 3.307 (Upton citing Theobald and Jonson); 4.560 (Heath). 2 See 1.239. Lady Macbeth. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.] Could Shakespeare possibly mean to play upon the similitude of gild and guilt?... | |
 | Anne Powling, John O'Connor, Geoff Barton - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1997 - 164 pages
...purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood 55 That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. (Exit. Someone knocks at the gate.) MODULE 4 DRAMA Macbeth: Whence is that knocking?... | |
 | Richard Alexander - English language - 1997 - 238 pages
...to black humour involving homophonic puns, as these two examples confirm. First Lady Macbeth: (2.26) ...If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. (Macbeth Act II, ii.) Then after being mortally wounded we hear Mercutio tragically... | |
 | Richard Alexander - English language - 1997 - 238 pages
...to black humour involving homophonic puns, as these two examples confirm. First Lady Macbeth: (2.26) ...If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. (Macbeth Act II, ii.) Then after being mortally wounded we hear Mercutio tragically... | |
 | Gordon C. F. Bearn - Philosophy - 1997 - 304 pages
...this: Lady Macbeth, returning their daggers and announcing her plan to frame Duncan's guards, observes: If he do bleed I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.9 denly find themselves punning: "Pardon the pun." Here, the amazement that characterizes... | |
 | Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers ... If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. Exit. Knock within. Whence is that knocking? How ist with me, when every noise... | |
 | Marcus Wood - Art - 2000 - 380 pages
...in this context introdnces the pnn on gnilding: 'The sleeping and the dead f Arе bnt as pictnres: 'tis the eye of childhood ' That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed. ITl gnild the laces of the grooms withal. For it mnst seem their gnilt."i2o Gnilding. in other words... | |
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