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" Isabel, Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me : Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband. "
Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 65
by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pages
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure. 10385 Measure for Measure increase 10386 The Merchant of Venice God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 10387 The Merchant...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 52

Stanley Wells - 2003 - 354 pages
...crave no other, nor no better man' (5.1.423). And urging Isabella to join her, she repeats the point: They say best men are moulded out of faults. And,...better For being a little bad. So may my husband. (5.1.436-8) In defending Vallenger Annabel insists that if she can forgive him then so should the law,...
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How to Read a Play

Ronald Hayman - 1999 - 116 pages
...wife, pleads for her husband's life, Isabella does not yet know that Claudio is still alive: MARIANA: O, Isabel. . . will you not lend a knee? DUKE: He dies for Claudio's death. ISABELLA: Most bounteous sir, Look, if it pleases you, on this man condemned As if my brother lived....
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...yet but kneel by me, Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more...may my husband. O Isabel, will you not lend a knee? 440 DUKE He dies for Claudio's death. x ISABELLA [Kneeling] Most bounteous sir, Look, if it please...
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Shakespeare Stories II

Leon Garfield - 1995 - 328 pages
...Isabella's gown, "Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me, hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all! They say best men are moulded out of faults, and,...better for being a little bad: so may my husband! Oh Isabel! Will you not lend a knee?" "He dies for Claudio's death," said the Duke. Isabella looked...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...against all logic: Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me, Hold up your hands, say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And,...better For being a little bad ; so may my husband, (vi) Her love for Angelo enables her to see through his cold outside to the confused man within. Marina...
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Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry: Proceedings of the 4th KIAS Annual ...

Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...of experiencing normal human weaknesses? The Duke may agree with what Mariana has somewhere heard: "They say best men are moulded out of faults, / And,...become much more the better / For being a little bad" (5.1.437-9). The punishment to which Duke Vincentio subjects Angelo seems infinitely more humane than...
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The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy

George Wilson Knight - 2001 - 426 pages
...none of any consequence: O my dear lord. I crave no other nor no bener man. (vi 4z6) She knows that best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the bener For being a linle bad. (vi 440) The incident is profoundly true. Love asks no questions, sees...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...circumstances without denying the offender's central guilt. Thus, Mariana says, looking to the future, They say best men are moulded out of faults, And,...better For being a little bad. So may my husband. (Vi444-46) And Isabella offers extenuation in her plea to the Duke by referring to Angelo's goodness...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...Clown — All's Well I.iii A young man married is a man that's marred. Parolles— All's Well II.iii They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And,...better For being a little bad: so may my husband. Mariana — MforM Vi Nature craves All dues be rend'red to their owners: now, What nearer debt in all...
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