 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...commit acts of violence. This contrasts with Lady Macbeth' s single-mindedness: 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... | |
 | Fiona McNeill - Drama - 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... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 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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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. 
