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" How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. "
The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord Verulam ... - Page 69
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...for the general. He would be crown'd : — How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking. Crown him ? — That ; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may...
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Hamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays

L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...But for the general. He would be crown'd: 88 How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him! that! And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger...
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The Critical Reception of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra from 1607 to 1905

Michael Steppat - Drama - 1980 - 646 pages
...of Julius Caesar: He would be crowned; How ^ that might change his nature, there ' s the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is,...
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Shakespeare's Rome

Robert S. Miola - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...animal imagery that reflects ironically upon his high-minded intentions and noble resolutions. He muses: "It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, / And that craves wary walking" (II.i. 14-15). Worrying about putting a "sting" in Caesar by crowning him, Brutus thinks him...
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Shakespeare's Soliloquies

Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...But for the general. He would be crown 'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that;-— 15 And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...But for the general. He would be crown'd: — How that might change his nature, there's the question: 3 walking. Crown him? — that; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may...
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Shakespeare and the Editorial Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 426 pages
...his own behavior in the coming action, for which "to spurne at him" is the final choice. Similarly: It is the bright day, that brings forth the Adder, And that craues wane walking: Crowne him that, . . . (JC ll. fi30-3i, Hinman p. 722I** The comma after "day"...
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The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851

Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1995 - 866 pages
...'wicked book' on the authority of the Quarterly Review (?WSW 21.9.1849). 9. Cf. Julius Caesar, II. i. 14, 'It is the bright day that brings forth the adder | And that craves wary walking', and Robert Burns, 'On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland', stanza 1:...
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Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes

R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may...
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Delivering the Framework for Teaching English

Michael Ross, Keith West - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 134 pages
...him, But for the general: he would be crown'd. How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Crown him - that! And then, I grant, we put a sting in him That at his will he may do danger...
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