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" I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. "
Cobbett's Weekly Register - Page 267
1831
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 57-58

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1826 - 866 pages
...1826. [PriwCA " Oh ; infirm of purpose '. ....... " I hare given suck ; and know " How tender 'tit, to love the babe that milks me : •" I would, while it was smiling in my face, " I la\ r pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, " And dash'd the brains out, bad J but so sworn...
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Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by ...

Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...display of hardened intrepidity, as presents one of the most terrific pictures that was ever imagined— 1 have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, whilst it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple .from its boneless gums, And dash'd its brains...
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Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...of hardened intrepidity, as presents one of the most terrific pictures that was ever imagined — -I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, whilst it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd its brains...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 4

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...invokes the spirits of murder to suck her breasts, and that in which she finally goads Macbeth : I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (i, vii, 54-9)...
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Tyranny in Shakespeare

Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (54-58) I say...
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The Imperial Theme

George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...contrast our two visions neatly with reference to the life-image of babyhood. Lady Macbeth speaks: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (Macbeth, i....
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History

Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...femininity. Her imagination is so extremely cruel precisely because her fantasy remains feminine: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love.../ I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have...
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Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud

Susanne Skubal - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 182 pages
...particular the once nurturing maternal is shown to be capable of perversion to a remarkable ferocity: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 50

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...by the most striking and most notorious instance of the image, in Lady Macbeth's infamous lines: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 16

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 212 pages
...contrast with willed ruthlessness : Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't and: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me were both too tense with determination to suggest, as they did for Mrs Siddons and many Lady Macbeth's...
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