 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 506 pages
...thought of plethora, as supposing pleurisy to arise from too much blood; otherwise I can not explain "this ' should ' is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts...dictionaries the pleurisy is often called the •' plethory." ' fin fine, Sh. and the early dramatists were misled by the sound into supposing that pleurisy was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 504 pages
...changes 120 And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this ' should ' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer : Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake, 125 To show yourself... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; And Of some kind sage, the patron of his toils, A visionary paradise disc Shakespeare. Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 276 pages
...changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; 120 And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' the ulcer:— Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake To show yourself your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 148 pages
...changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. 16 But, to th' quick o' the ulcer: Hamlet comes back: What would you undertake, 10 Defence here means... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 300 pages
...changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; And then this ' should ' is like a spendthrift sigh. That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer : Hamlet comes back ; what would you undertake, To show yourself your... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1879 - 290 pages
...the meaning is, " this report did so envenom Hamlet with envy of you" See foot-note 21. P. 195. "And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing." So the quarto of 1637. The earlier quartos have " a spend-thrifls sigh." The passage is not in the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, aVe accidents ; And then this " should " is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. 1167 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7 Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent... | |
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That we would do, We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. 
