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" I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 220
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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Mother's Milk

Andrew Thomas Breslin - Fiction - 2005 - 258 pages
...experiments than adults. You know those poor kids you see on milk cartons?" Logan shook his head sadly. / have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash 'd the brains out had I so sworn as you Have done to this. — William...
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Playwriting: A Practical Guide

Noël Greig - Playwriting - 2005 - 232 pages
...reveals something about her own history to prove how much her own determination should spur him on: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

Michael Marmot - Social Science - 2007 - 340 pages
...tries to strengthen her husband s weakening resolve to kill the king by saying (Act 1, Scene VI I): I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, 1 lave plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dash'd the brains out, Had 1 so sworn as you have...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 260 pages
...themselves, and that - their fitness68 now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know69 55 How tender7" 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless71 gums And dashed the72 brains out, had I so sworn as you Have...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...breasts And take my milk for gall' (1.5.46—47). Berating Macbeth for his cowardice, she declares: 'I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me' (1.7.54—55), but this child and the brightly chattering son of Macduff are evoked only in order to...
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Shakespeare's Heroines

Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...for gall, ye murdering ministers, That compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, &c. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis To love the babe that milks me, &c. and an accent of indignant astonishment, laying the principal emphasis on the word we — "we fail!"...
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Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius ...

E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...'s children, the bloody-child apparition — and in its language, Lady Macbeth's terrible hyperbole: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, Volume 1

Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 292 pages
...declares that she would sacrifice her own child rather than fail to pursue their murderous intentions: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Sourcebook

Alexander Leggatt - Drama - 2006 - 220 pages
...and yet you would make both; They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, 17 Macbeth makes his refusal a practical matter; he does not want to lose the high reputation he has...
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The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and ...

Verena Schörkhuber - 2007 - 37 pages
...Macbeth works on Macbeth's image of himself as man and tries to abash him with her own resolution: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (1.7.54-59)...
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