 | Piotr Sadowski - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 336 pages
...pale of goddess Nature and the feminine domain of procreation: Hear, Nature, hear, dear goddess, hear: Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this...her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her. (1.4.267-73) Goneril herself openly rejects feminine kindness and pity by upbraiding her merciful husband... | |
 | Kim Paffenroth - Religion - 2004 - 188 pages
...Lear prays in front of her in the most ungodly way imaginable: Hear, Nature, hear; dear goddess, hear: Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured... | |
 | 2004 - 428 pages
...throne, become king or queen 294 *£Eg uotable Quotes§f • Quotable Quotes in King Lear King Lear : If she must teem, Create her child of spleen, that...her! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Drama - 2011 - 387 pages
...wound.) 318. fond: foolish 319. Beweep . . . again: ie, if (you, ie, eyes) weep again over this matter To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey...And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honor her. If she must teem, 295 Create her child of spleen, that it may live And be a thwart disnatured... | |
 | Radhouan Ben Amara - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 148 pages
...Lear curses Goneril and asks Nature to make her barren: "LEAR: Hear Nature, hear! dear Goddess hear!// Dry up in her the organs of increase// And from her...derogate body never spring// A babe to honour her." (I, iv, 273-276) From Act II, Nature becomes Lear's main interlocutor and the forces of Nature are... | |
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Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her !... 
