 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...is plain as way to parish church. He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,...•will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th'infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine. DUKE Fie on thee! I can tell what thou... | |
 | Charles Nicholl - History - 1995 - 440 pages
...please, for so fools have. And they that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh . . . Give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world. It is generally agreed that this interest in the boundaries of satirical comment... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...multi-coloured and very distinctive. Jaques also draws attention to the social function that the fool performs: Invest me in my motley; give me leave To speak my...will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th'infected world. If they will patiently receive my medicine. (IL7.58-61) 1VI1.U.\M KF.MI' DANClNG... | |
 | Michael Morrison - Study Aids - 2013 - 120 pages
...hour by his dial. He expresses the desire that he, too, might be a fool: "I must have liberty...give me leave/ To speak my mind, and I will through and through/ Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world." Duke Senior remarks that Jaques is an odd choice to do such good, since he has... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Not to seem senseless of the bob. If not, /The wisemans folly is anatomiz'd / Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. / Invest me in my motley. Give...mind, and I will through and through / Cleanse the fbul body of th'infected world, / If they will patiently receive my medicine. [II.vii.47-61] 4. Most... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...play. We may accept his discordant notes not as an irritant but as a necessary corrective. As he says: Give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th'infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine. Is is of course Jaques who speaks the... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...the mouth of Jacques in As You Like It, Bacon makes his viewpoint and purpose doubly clear: Jacques. Invest me in my motley. Give me leave To speak my...will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine — All the world's a stage, And all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not, The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. Invest me in my motley; give...will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th'infected world, 60 If they will patiently receive my medicine. DUKE Fie on thee! I can tell what... | |
 | M. A. Katritzky - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 400 pages
...with my folly, They most must laugh [...] The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. Invest me in my motley; give...will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.14 13 Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World,... | |
 | David Robb - Drama - 2007 - 241 pages
...the world could be cured of its many ills, and he, perhaps, of his own "humorous sadness" (VI; 1 17): Invest me in my motley, give me leave To speak my...will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they patiently receive my medicine.7 commit, hence, a deliberate fool. Oscar... | |
| |
Invest me in my motley : give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine. 
