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" 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... "
The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by ... - Page 147
by William Shakespeare - 1771
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England

Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 pages
..."Have you eyes?" he asks his mother after comparing the true picture of grace with its counterfeit, "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?" (3.4.65-67). He continues: You cannot call it love; for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame,...
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England

Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 pages
...fair mountain leave to feed / And batten on this moor? Ha, have you eyes?" (3.4.65-67). He continues: 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? Sense sure you have,...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 pages
...husband — Look you now what follows. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment, and what judgment 70 Would step from this to this? Sense...
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The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern ...

Marguerite A. Tassi - 2005 - 278 pages
...image: Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain...feed. And batten on this moor? ha, have you eyes? (3.4.63-67) Hamlet's vision of Claudius as a rotting head of corn upon which Gertrude gorges herself...
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Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries ...

James P. Lusardi - 2006 - 292 pages
...her present husband, he drives home what seems to us the clouded vision of an inflamed adolescent: Ha! Have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. (3.4.67-70) menopausal women have surrendered their sexuality....
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Food in Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays

Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 188 pages
...state of sin, in particular the sin of gluttony. Hamlet characterizes Gertrude as a perverse feeder: "Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, / And batten on this moor? Ha? Have you eyes?" (3.4.65-6). Since all feeding is anathema to Hamlet, Gertrude's sexual appetite is considered inordinate...
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The Romantics and the May Day Tradition

Essaka Joshua - 2007 - 172 pages
...hard-working man? Up with the lark at labour; sober, honest. Of an unblemished character? (I. i. 33-4) 103 'You cannot call it love; for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame [...]', William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Arden Shakespeare, ed. by Harold Jenkins (London: Methuen,...
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You and Your Aging Parent: A Family Guide to Emotional, Social, Health, and ...

Barbara Silverstone, Helen Kandel Hyman - 2008 - 432 pages
...that while the other appetites last indefinitely and must be satisfied, sexual appetites die young. You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame . . . said Hamlet to his mother, Queen Gertrude. He could not understand why she married with such...
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