Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government;... Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions - Page 216edited by - 2006 - 385 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Tim Spiekerman - 2001 - 222 pages
...poetic defense of yet another one of his vices, thievery: Marry then sweet wag, when thou art king let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves ol the day's beauty: let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and... | |
| John Alan Roe - 2002 - 238 pages
...first scene takes the form of a blandishment: Falstaff. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. (1.2.22-8) Such language is often understood to be a pastiche of Lyly's euphuistic style, and the element... | |
| John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pages
...ordinary men, is guided not by Phoebus, the sun, but by the moon: Marry then sweet wag, when thou art king let not us that are squires of the night's body be...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. KING HENRY IV, PART 1 (1.2, 23-29) In short, Falstaff is a true lunatic (from the Latin for "moonstruck"),... | |
| Hugh Grady - 2002 - 320 pages
...Invention of the Human, 281-2, on the parallel with Sancho Panza. Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king let not us that are squires of the night's body be...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. (1.2.20-6) Unlike Quixote's mad vision, however, Falstaffs seems to contain within itself some tacit... | |
| Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 pages
...quibble on 'superfluous'), as his following speech shows: Marry then sweet wag, when thou art king let not us that are squires of the night's body be...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. (1.2.23-9) Here the yoking asks for acceptance rather than rejection, and the quibbles are more insistent... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar. Feste— TN IV.ii When thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. Falstaff—1 Henry IV I.ii There lives not three good men unhanged in England: and one of them is fat... | |
| Laurie Shannon - 2002 - 258 pages
...political regime of friendship ahead of him: Marry then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let us not that are squires of the night's body be called thieves...sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon. (1HIV, 1.2.21—27) The high artifice confounding day and night; the oxymoronic concept of "gentlemen"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be call'd ث 2 govern'd, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.... | |
| Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 pages
...pretence - his own and his friends' disreputable activities: 'Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be...Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of ... our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal' (1.2.22-8). At Shrewsbury,... | |
| Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 208 pages
...ability to make things look like something they are not, to re-create reality in Falstaffian terms: Let not us that are squires of the night's body be...of the day's beauty; let us be Diana's foresters, gendemen of the shade, minions of the moon ; and let men say we be men of good government, being governed,... | |
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