 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 896 Seiten
...Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, 40 And like a man to double business bound, I stand in...sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 166 Seiten
...murder. 58 Lady Macbeth is also anticipated when Claudius considers the irrevocability of his sin: "What if this cursed hand / Were thicker than itself...in the sweet heavens / To wash it white as snow?" (3.3.43-6), although the notion that a huge amount of water will not wash away a stain is proverbial,... | |
 | Timothy J. Duggan - 2008 - 229 Seiten
...rank, it smells to heaven; / It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. / Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. / My...heavens To wash it white as snow ? / Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence? / And what's in prayer but this twofold force, To be forestalled... | |
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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, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself... 
