...doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. SHAKSPEARE. Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. FLORA'S LEXICON. EADOW SWEET. Spircea Ulmaria- Cl 12, ICOSANDRIA, Order: PENTAOYNIA. T plant, called...

...my conception. 5 — ii. 4. 745 The same. Pray, can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will ; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. 36— iii. 3. 746 The same. May one be...

...the hills in a balance* ? What if this guilty hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood* 1 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow' 1 Has God', thou fool', worked solely for thy good' 1 Thy joy', thy pastime', thy attire', thy food'?...

...eldest curse upon't, A brother's murder ! — Pray I cannot, Though inclination be as sharp as 'twill, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And like...blood ; Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 2 To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's...

...only a first episode, as he regroups. He says his guilt defeats his will, in a Hamlet-like metaphor: And, like a man to double business bound, I stand...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. He speaks like Hamlet, trying to distance his own situation in a generalization, drawn in more than...

...before him, "Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow," 51:7, when he made the king ask — What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? The fascinating story of St. Teresa, born in 1515, at Avila, who made the lives of saints her nursery...

...for instance, Claudius wishes to atone for the murder of his brother through prayer but hesitates: "My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,/ And, like a man to double business bound./ 1 stand in pause where 1 shall first begin,/ And both neglect" (3.3.40,43). 1n communicative terms,...

...eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder! — Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will; My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like...hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? la there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to...

...After Polonius leaves to hide in Gertrude's room, Claudius is left alone to relive his monumental sin: What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? (Ill, iii, 43-46) That cannot be, since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murther...

...the soliloquy develops as a series of paradoxes expressing bafflement, frustration, and entrapment: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like...pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. (III. iii. 40-43) And: Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent?...