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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 Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 237
by William Shakespeare - 1826
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 464 pages
...But with his last attempt he wip'd it out. O. v. 3. DETERMINATION (See also RESOLUTION). I have grven suck ; and know How tender 'tis, to love the babe...brains out, had I so sworn as You have done to this. •'/• i- "• DETERMINATION,— contrnued. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pages
...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck ; and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it...brains out, had I so sworn, As you have done to this. MACB. If we should fail, LADYM. We fail h. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we 'll...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...but Lady Macbeth changes his mind. In one of the most blood-curdling images in the play, she says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done this. She then recounts the murder plan. When Duncan is asleep, she will get his attendants drunk....
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English Matters, Volume 3

Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...would Be so much more the man. I I Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness...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 Clothes that Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth ...

Jessica Munns, Penny Richards - Design - 1999 - 380 pages
...her "Remarks," Siddons quotes Lady Macbeth's dramatic comments and offers a revealing interpretation: 'I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out,- — had I but so sworn As you have done to this.' Even...
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How to Read a Play

Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...act. Questions like "How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: 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 Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. - If we should fail, we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. Macbeth,...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? 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 outs, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... 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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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...speeches that Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had...
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