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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. "
The Works of Shakespeare - Page 280
by William Shakespeare - 1752
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Shakespeare's Heroines

Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...make both; They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it were smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out,...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - 2005 - 260 pages
...themselves, and that - their fitness68 now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know69 55 How tender7" 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless71 gums And dashed the72 brains out, had...
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Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius ...

E. Beatrice Batson - 2006 - 198 pages
...bloody-child apparition — and in its language, Lady Macbeth's terrible hyperbole: 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 the brains out, had I...
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Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, Volume 1

Peggy O'Brien - 2006 - 292 pages
...would sacrifice her own child rather than fail to pursue their murderous intentions: 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 the brains out, had I...
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Sourcebook

Alexander Leggatt - 2006 - 220 pages
...make both; They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. 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, 17 Macbeth makes his refusal a practical matter; he does not want to lose the high...
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The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and ...

Verena Schörkhuber - 2007 - 37 pages
...Macbeth's image of himself as man and tries to abash him with her own resolution: 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...
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Small Cast

Sam Dowling - 2007 - 90 pages
...would make both They have made themselves and that their fitness now Does unmake you. 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 the brains out had I so...
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Poor Women in Shakespeare

Fiona McNeill - 2007 - 20 pages
...rule, and household economy. Lady Macbeth declares near the beginning of the play, "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 gum, And dashed the brains out, had I...
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Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Gunnar Olsson - 2010 - 569 pages
...her that he is as determined to carry out their plan as she is. In her own words, 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...
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Shakespeare's Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's ...

Robert A. Logan - 2007 - 276 pages
...Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. (I, v, 39-49) 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 the brains out, had I...
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