...to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities : but I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown : beseech you all, my lords, With thoughts so qualified as your charities Shall best instruct you,...

...prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities. But I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown. (2. 1. 107-14) Refusing to blubber and moan, Hermione defends herself in quiet self-possession and...

...prone to weeping, äs our sex Commonly are, the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here which burns Worse than tears drown... (II.i.108-12) Wenn Leontes ihr in seiner Eifersucht ihren ^offenen" Körper vorwirft, „her without-door...

...prone to weeping as our sex Commonly are, the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. [•.'-_ È But these verbal gentlemen do not seem to have felt that the resemblance is merely on the...

...Hermione seeks to distinguish herself from early modern women who weep when she proclaims, "I am not prone to weeping, as our sex / Commonly are ... but I have / That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns / Worse than tears drown" (108-12). Like Ceres, who stands "as if turned to...

...dews " do not soften her eyes; but majesty as well as woman discloses itself in that admission — I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. But anger is to be quenched in patience — patience, which is the woman's lot. These women all believed...