 | John O'Connor - Education - 2001 - 264 pages
...are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. (within) Who's there? What ho! Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis done. Th' attempt and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Wordsworth classics - 2000 - 684 pages
...mortalitie] SCHMIDT (1875): Mortal, human life. 405, 406.] STEEVENS (ed. 1780) compares Macbeth, II.ii.7 f., "death and nature do contend about them Whether they live or die." 407, 408.] MALONE (ed. 1790) compares (under 11. 481 f.) Marlowe's Hero and Leander, ca. 1593, II,... | |
 | Alison Ross - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 196 pages
...are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. In the case of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, it is like reading another language and most people... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 224 pages
...were no strife, But that life lived in death, and death in life. 20. I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. 21. Whiter goes on to describe the 'lean" times of Lent by a quotation from Hamlet, n, ii, 27-9 ('what... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...act of silence and darkness. Death is, indeed, the exact opposite of nature and all natural effects : death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. (n. ii. 7.) Our whole world is unnatural, beyond physical laws, 'metaphysical' (iv 30). All sense-forms... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - Drama - 2003 - 264 pages
...the murder of the sleeping Duncan by making the guards sleep soundly: "I have drugg'd their possets / That death and nature do contend about them, / Whether they live or die" (2. 2. 6-8). 39 Even in the safer contexts of comedy or romance, sleeping is risky: in The Taming of... | |
 | Keith West - Drama - 2003 - 98 pages
...are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. Macbeth: (within) Who's there! What, ho! Lady Macbeth: Alack! I am afraid they have awak'd, And 'tis... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Dinah Jurksaitis - Drama - 2003 - 156 pages
...are open; and the surfeited grooms 5 Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets. That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. MACBETH [Within] Who's there? - What, ho! LADY MACBETH Alack, I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis... | |
 | Bernice W. Kliman - Drama - 2004 - 260 pages
...bold' - she did not know how drunk she was. She descended the steps diagonally, stumbled as she said, 'Death and Nature do contend about them, / Whether they live, or die' (7-8) and laughed. A noise made her shriek and clap her hands to her ears. She looked upset, distracted... | |
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He is about it: The doors are open ; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die. 
