 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government.  The Noble Traytour: A Chronicle - Page 277by Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...with oppression of their prodigal weight. Give some supportance to the bending twigs. (To the other) Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government. You thus employed,... | |
 | James Boyd White - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 348 pages
...their sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight, Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. You... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight: Give some supportance to the bending twigs. — usband, come home presently. [Exeitnt HOSTESS and BOY. BARDOLPH. Come, sh sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. — You thus employ'd,... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - Electronic books - 1997 - 276 pages
...Even the instructions the gardener gives his helpers take the form of a lesson in political theory: Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of [too] fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. (III.iv.33-36)... | |
 | Aristotle - Philosophy - 1999 - 288 pages
...still current in Elizabethan England. as the following passage from Richard the Second makes plain: Go thou. and like an executioner. Cut off the heads of too fast.growing sprays. That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. (3. 4. 33-6) 13II... | |
 | Martin Coyle - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...private interest, and on the need for active intervention to remedy abuses even at the cost of violence: Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. (III.iv.32-6)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 270 pages
...sire 30 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight; Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, One of the men challenges the need to tidy the garden when the country has been left in such... | |
 | Tim Spiekerman - Political Science - 2001 - 222 pages
...alone is not sufficient. One must also be quick to recognize and deal decisively with ambitious rivals: Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth: All must be even in our government. (III.iv.33-36)... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...supportance to the bending twigs. (3.4.30-3) — at others these fellows seem to be Levellers of a kind: Go thou, and like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government. (11. 34-7) nature... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 2002 - 296 pages
...complains that lawless Denmark has become) a place fit merely for "things rank and gross in nature": Go thou, and, like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government. (III.iv.34-37)... | |
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