 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 236 pages
...ii, 221-6) No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i'th'cage; When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In a walled prison packs... | |
 | Belden C. Lane - 2002 - 334 pages
...denied so long. To the once-scorned Cordelia, Lear uttered a last eloquent cry for prosaic mystery: So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales,...loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. ..." Take upon us the mystery of things, indeed.... | |
 | Paul Robinson - 2002 - 358 pages
...prison. Lear says to Cordelia: Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; . . . (V, iii, 8—14) The reminder, moreover, is anything but accidental: for years Verdi tried to... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 410 pages
...away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing Г11 kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live...rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them tooWho loses and who wins, who's in, who's out And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were... | |
 | David Schalkwyk - 2002 - 284 pages
...Thanks to Jacques ljcrthond lbr drawing this passage to my attention in the context of my argument. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And...laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk ol court news, and we'll talk with them too Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, And take upon... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 412 pages
...away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing Г11 kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live...At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of eourt news; and we'll talk with them tooWho loses and who wins, who's in, who's out And take upon's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh As gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court...loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs... | |
 | John Herbert Roper - 2003 - 364 pages
...singer reminded them of one set of realities, the playwright reminded them of still another truth: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When...loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies.24 EPILOGUE By the planting season of 1981 Paul... | |
 | Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...and again they seem simple. Lear is so happy that he still has Cordelia, that nothing else matters. Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. Lear's vision of prison is clearly unrealistic. How unbalanced is he still? The lack of dynamic in... | |
 | Grace Ioppolo - 2003 - 208 pages
...prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th'cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down I0 And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray,...and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon V the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In a walled prison packs and... | |
| |
Come, let's away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear... 
