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" tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o... "
Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists ... - Page 157
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849
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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...Sequence in his conjuring of Romeo, and in the wonderful speech after he receives his death-wound: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church...for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses. Juliet's Nurse is even more...
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Shakespeare: The Golfer's Companion

Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...pretty sight His gashed stabs looked like A breach in nature. [Macbeth IIiii 112] Inflated confidence Tis not so deep as a well, Nor so wide as a church door, But 'tis enough, 'twill serve. [Romeo and Juliet III i 93] Reading the line Bias and thwart. not answering the aim. [Troilus and Cressida...
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The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose

Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...lines move towards one point, all the details complement each other) as he describes his wound: No 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve ... I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. And though for his last speech he is given the customary...
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A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World

Richard H. Armstrong - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 358 pages
...note to "The Aetiology of Hysteria," CHAPTER 10 Uncanny Understanding and a Grave Philosophy Mercuric: Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. — Romeo and Juliet Freud's teacher of history at the Gymnasium that he attended in Vienna was Viktor...
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Cancer: My Story

Daniel Feist, Stan Shatenstein - Cancer - 2006 - 128 pages
...Romeo tries to comfort him, saying, "Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much." Mercutio's reply: "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."...
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Quarry

Susan Cummins Miller - Fiction - 2006 - 268 pages
...fiance assumed his identity — and killed Bernie Venable." I looked down at the list. "When he wrote, 'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man . . . [But] what's in a name? That which we call a rose I By any other name would smell as sweet,'...
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Get Thee to a Punnery (revised): An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon ...

Richard Lederer - Humor - 2006 - 198 pages
...their guilt." And in Romeo and Juliet the stabbed Mercutio expires with a pun on his bleeding lips: "Ask for me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave man." Referring to ages such as the English Renaissance, sociologist GC Lichtenberg has observed that "where...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...as a signal that things cannot now go well; the death of this jesting character who dies on a joke - 'ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man' (3.1.89-90) - marks the end of the lightness with which the Montague/Capulet feud has been temporarily...
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The English Poems of George Herbert

George Herbert - Literary Collections - 2007 - 47 pages
...Church-monuments. Compare the pun in the dying Mercutio's line in Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet III ii 95-6: Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.' 5. checker d: Having a pattern of various colours in geometrical arrangement (OED 1). 6. See Texts...
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Illustrated Dictionary of Literature

Jack Richardson - American literature - 2009 - 194 pages
...extensively, for serious and comic purposes; in Romeo and Juliet (III.i.101), the dying Mercutio puns, 'Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man'. Puns have serious literary uses, but since the eighteenth century, puns have been used almost purely...
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