 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 544 pages
...horror. MARL Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands, say nothing, — I '11 speak alL They say, best men are moulded out of faults,...better For being a little bad : so may my husband. 0, Isabel ! will yon not lend a knee ? DUKE. He dies for Claudio's death. ISAB. Most bounteous sir,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 310 pages
...Great men have reaching hands : Lord Say. 2nd Henry VI., Act iv. Sc. 7. MEN (best men's faults) [91]. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And,...become much more. the better For being a little bad : Mariana. Measure for Measure, Act v. Sc. I. MEN'S ACTS [777]. The evil that men do lives after them... | |
 | John Bayley - 1971 - 384 pages
...Angelo in his abasement, he must listen as we do to Mariana's valiantly uxorious plea on his behalf: They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And,...become much more the better For being a little bad. . . The man who has ordered the secret execution of the brother he condemned for the offence he himself... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - 1972 - 488 pages
...something to the seemingly absurd argument with which Mariana in the end eagerly pleads for his life: "They say best men are moulded out of faults; /And,...become much more the better /For being a little bad" (Vi-437-39)- To use a figure from All's Well, the web of Angelo's life is a mingled yarn and his faults... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...Duke and Isabella: I hope you will not mock me with a husband! I crave no other, nor no better man. Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me. Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all. They say most men are moulded out of faults. And for the most, become much more the better For being a little... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...in the process of learning about existence as they leave us: Mariana: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more...better For being a little bad. So may my husband. (5.1.444-46) Death, as Sir Charles Mountford has said, is the end of all calamity; but in the words... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 276 pages
...mercy of this fact, Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break And take her hence in horror. MARIANA Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me. Hold...all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, 440 And for the most become much more the better For being a little bad. So may my husband. 0 Isabel,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 148 pages
...fact, Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break, And take her hence in horror. MARIANA Isabel, 440 Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me; Hold up your...all. They say best men are moulded out of faults, 112 5, For being a little bad; so may my husband. 0 Isabel, will you not lend a knee? DUKE He dies... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 pages
...we have seen of Angelo's corruption, after all, Mariana's argument for leniency on the grounds that "best men are moulded out of faults, / And for the...better / For being a little bad; so may my husband" (5.1.439-41) seems to lean very heavily on "a little bad" and "may." In any case, by forcing Angelo... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 pages
...we are moved to think how much love and wisdom such an apparently trivial generalization conceals: They say best men are moulded out of faults, And,...become much more the better For being a little bad. v, »,437-9 As in Bertram's 'O pardon!', Shakespeare is bent on avoiding explosion of speech, a call... | |
| |
I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad ; so may my husband. 
