When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter •, when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I fmelt 'em out. Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie, I am... Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear - Page 446by William Shakespeare - 1773Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 526 pages
...to make me ehatter, when the thunder would not peaee at my bidding, there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was everything ; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. Glo. The triek of that voiee I do well remember: Is't... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1864 - 868 pages
...ones were there. To say ay, and no, to every thing that I said !—Ay and no too was no good divinity. Aud to my state grew stranger, being transported...uncle— Dost thou attend me ? MIBA. Sir, most hecdfull smelt 'em out. Go to, they arc not men o' their words : they told me I was every thing ; 't is a lie... | |
| Lillian Feder - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 356 pages
...accepted as his due from his youth to old age. It was nature that taught him he had been deceived: "When the rain came to wet me once and the wind to...not peace at my bidding, there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out" (iv, vi, 97-105). His ensuing outbursts convey a mixture of rage at his deprivation... | |
| William R. Elton - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...Still deranged, Lear not only does not fear, but is even more explicitly dubious about, the thunder: “When the rain came to wet me once and the wind...peace at my bidding, there I found ‘em, there I smelt ‘em out” (IVvi.1o2-1o5). The lunatic king has significantly lost all sense of his capacity... | |
| Paul Youngquist - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 213 pages
...to bring him around to the truth of his own littleness. He confesses as much in the memorable lines, When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to...me chatter, when the thunder would not peace at my bidding,,there I found ‘em, there I smelt ‘em out. Go to, they are not men o' their words: they... | |
| John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...the ingratitude of his daughters. He realizes that he had been flattered during his time of power: ‘When the rain came to wet me once and the wind...peace at my bidding, there I found ‘em, there I smelt ‘em 3' IV. VI. 134—S. ¿ iv. vi. r8o—¿. out. Go to, they are not men of their words: they... | |
| Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...place writ large 2¿ Hence, I think, the logic according to which Lear's memory of the storm—”when the rain came to wet me once and the wind to make...when the thunder would not peace at my bidding” (4.6.102—4)—leads him to imagine that female place, and to imagine concentrated in it the dispersed... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 964 pages
...were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything that I said! 'Ay' and 'no' too was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet me once and the wind to...not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are not men o'their words. They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie: I... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...ones were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything I said 'ay* and 'no' to was no good divinity. 95 When the rain came to wet me once and the wind to...thunder would not peace at my bidding, there I found them, there I smelt them out. Go to, they are not men of their words. They told me I was everything.... | |
| William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...that I said ‘ay' and ‘no' to was no good divinity.' 5 ' When the rain came to wet me once and ioo the wind to make me chatter, when the thunder would...peace at my bidding, there I found ‘em, there I smelt ‘em out! Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was everything; ‘tis a lie... | |
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