Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays - Page 55by William Shakespeare - 1859 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
| Louis Blanc - 1858 - 548 pages
...at, so little are most men capable of forming a sound judgment of anything that glitters : " Throngh tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and...hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it." But the time is not far distant, when, the play being over, the actors, stripped of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand ! t virtue y c bd c Who " laet [t t vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin' with gold, And the strong lance. of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand ! lord. HAM. An earnest conjuration from the king, —...flourish ; As peace should still her wheaten garland wea f vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sinc with gold, And the strong lance of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand ! re ; the publishers probably trusting to foist the...as Shakespeare's work ; but from this piece he ap f vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sinc with gold, And the strong lance of... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 524 pages
...great image of authority : a dog's obey'd"*in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand ! Why dost thou lash that whore ? Strip thine own back...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able "em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
| L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 pages
...beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her....justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em. 'None does offend, none, I say,... | |
| Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 pages
...But in my garments (rv, vi, 9-10) and in the same scene (rv, vi) Lear returns to his former argument: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. (rv, vi, 168-71) Yet vesture has its positive significance; at the reunion of Cordelia... | |
| William F. Zak - 1984 - 220 pages
...always have, if more furtively or more cleverly than the poor. The usurer hangs the cozener. Thorough tatter'd clothes [small] vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none, I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
| James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...it, Lear maintains his pose as absolute ruler and would use his authority to corrupt society further: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none! I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
| Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 pages
...lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. 165 Thorough tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 169 None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em: Take that of me, my friend,... | |
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