 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this?  The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 185by William Shakespeare - 1767Full view - About this book
 | George Washington Blagden - 1835 - 42 pages
...it were not unreasonable to ask their accuser, in the language of the Dane to his mother : ' Couhl you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor ? ' With all their disdain of those pleasures that not unfrequently enervate a people, and accompany... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 pages
...simply rhetorical; the other disputant in this moral debate may just possibly have a counter-argument. 'You cannot call it love, for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble' (lines 68-9) is aggressive, yet meant to persuade; surely, he seems to insist, you accept my reasoning.... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heydey in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 pages
...pale cast of thought" (3. i. 83). There are also more immediate riddles. His mother — how could she "on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor" (3.4.67)? The ghost — which may be a devil, for "the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And...age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment Would step from this to this? Sense sure you have, Else... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...of brother and brother, demanding she tell him what moved her to leave the demi-god for the beast. "You cannot call it love, for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, / And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment / Would step from this to this?" (III.iv.69-72). Step... | |
 | Willy Apollon, Richard Feldstein - 1996 - 384 pages
...what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildew'd ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And...age The hey-day in the blood is tame; it's humble, And waits upon the judgement: and what judgement Would step from this to this? Despite her protestations... | |
 | 1996 - 264 pages
...what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And...age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgement; and what judgement Would step from this to this? He throws her back down... | |
 | Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study - 1996 - 414 pages
...graphic detail. At her age the queen's sovereignty should extend to and rule over such desires — "You cannot call it love; for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame" (3.4.68-69) — and if not, such passion is a mutineer, a traitor, a figure of "rebellious hell." The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 132 pages
...satyrlike brother— a question that he puts to her directly in the course of the scene in her chamber ("Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, /And batten on this moor?" [III.iv.67-68]). This is but a single demonstration, in a play that abounds with like examples, of... | |
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