 Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation,...  The Plays - Page 38by William Shakespeare - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...have hope to live, and am prepar'd to die. Duke. Be absolute for death ; either death or life Slmll thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If...a thing That none but fools would keep:' a breath tliim art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost tliis habitation, where thou keep'st, 1 Hourly... | |
 | Don Cameron Allen - History - 1967 - 294 pages
...Vincentio probably announces Shakespeare's world-weary opinion in his consolatory speech to Claud io: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...fools would keep. A breath thou art Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict.49 " Op. at.. Act I,... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...unfortunately too long to quote in full - at the beginning of the third act of Measure for Measure. Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall...I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. The speech is a formal 'persuasion' -'Reason thus with life'- and TW Baldwin points out that Shakespeare... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...like the preachers before him, must first evoke in Claudio a sense of the frustrations of life: Duke: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. . , . Thou art not certain,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how. 74 Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...would keep; a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; merely, thou art death's... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - Drama - 1997 - 194 pages
...Duke [disguised] and Provost [with] Claudio. Duke. So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo? Cla. The miserable have no other medicine But only hope:...would keep. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art Death's... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 420 pages
...both Claudio and, later, another prisoner called Barnadine to want to die. His speech begins thus: Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. Mutability reaches into, even constitutes, identity: Thou art not thyself; For thou exists on many... | |
 | Warren F. Motte - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 240 pages
...passage in Measure for Measure in which Duke Vincentio speaks about the ephemeral quality of life: Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose...would keep. A breath thou art. Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. (3.1.6-11l Mutchings... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...CLAUDio, who is kneeling before him, and administers the last rites) BISHOP (As if intoning a prayer) Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall...fools would keep; a breath thou art Servile to all the skyey influences That does this habitation where thou keep'st Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...bow 177 prompture prompting 179 tender pay 182 abhorred pollution loathed defilement III.l The prison DUKE Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall...That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art, 9 Servile to all the skyey influences 10 That dost this habitation where thou keep'st 11 Hourly afflict.... | |
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