 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 psl.
...from a woman without great impatience. wives" JOHNSON". "" "' """ l -"'""° """." "•* lay Uf0a oar ' 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... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 354 psl.
...and yet you would make both : They've made themselves, and that their fitness now Doth unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 352 psl.
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... 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... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 psl.
...speeches that Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had... | |
 | Lindsay McNab, Imelda Pilgrim, Marian Slee - 2001 - 212 psl.
...themselves and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck and know 20 How tender 't is to love the babe that milks 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... | |
 | Roberta S. Kremer - 2001 - 280 psl.
...early on by Lady Macbeth, who, in order to spur Macbeth's ambition towards killing Duncan, says to him: "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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums /And dashed... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 psl.
...her femininity. Her imagination is so extremely cruel precisely because her fantasy remains feminine: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to.../ 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... | |
 | Susanne Skubal - 2002 - 182 psl.
...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... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 psl.
...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...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... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 208 psl.
...she 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...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... | |
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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. 
