Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. The Plays - Page 369by William Shakespeare - 1824Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong...doth pierce it. None does offend ; none, I say, none : I '11 able 'em: ' Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...from the cur ? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office. — Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes,...lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pig-ny's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, none. I say, none ; I'll able 'em : Take that of me,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obey'd in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody...a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. None does offend, noae, I say, none ; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's... | |
| Louis Blanc - 1858 - 548 pages
...at, so little are most men capable of forming a sound judgment of anything that glitters : " Throngh tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and...hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it." But the time is not far distant, when, the play being over, the actors, stripped of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...hand anything may he: Handy - dandy , which hand i« it in? 1. je the human creature. ACT IV. SC. VI. "Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;...doth pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none; I 'll able 'em:1 Take that of me,2 my friend, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips. Get thee... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 836 pages
...that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small t NTZ, and GUILDEXSTHBN. does pierce it. None does offend, none, — I say, none ; I'll abled 'em : Take that of me, my friend,... | |
| Charles Booth Parsons - 1860 - 408 pages
...and the fair colorings of guilt serve as garments to hide its nakedness from the sight. Lear says, -Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice...; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it." This sentiment of the poor old king, thsugh uttered in madness, is replete with sound philosophy. Nor... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1861 - 524 pages
...creature run from the cur ? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority : a dog's obey'd"*in office. — Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able "em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1862 - 518 pages
...to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tatter' d clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns...hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener Through tatterM clothes small vices do appear ; Hobes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, ,...: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. 1C one does offend, none, I say, none ; I'll able* 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who have the power... | |
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