 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...Literature, VI, 2117-22. 215.8/212.20 i GALL HIS KIBE In the graveyard scene, Hamlet says to Horatio, "the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe" (Ham., V, i, 151-53). 215.9/212.21 ALL AMORT... | |
 | Edward Patrick Mahoney - Europe - 1976 - 662 pages
...the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heels of our courtier, he galls his kibe. (Hamlet, VI) But while Shakespeare introduced... | |
 | Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 380 pages
...the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio,' this three years I have took note of it: the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. (Harn. V. i. 133-138) So mag man schließlich,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, — 130 these three years I have taken note of it — the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been grave-maker?... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - Art - 1992 - 268 pages
...sophistication of the gravedigger's reasoning, says, "By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe" (5.1.130), that is, he rubs the sores on... | |
 | Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it. The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. HAMLET's very tone of voice, changes the... | |
 | Francis Fergusson - History - 276 pages
...social disorder: the dead receive no respect; the professions, especially law, are laughably helpless; "the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe." As for the courtiers, we shall presently... | |
 | Milo Kearney, Manuel Medrano - England - 2001 - 264 pages
...such a boost in status that an English proverb sprang up, which Shakespeare (Hamlet, act 5), quotes: "The toe of the peasant conies so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe [heel sore]." Opposition to the tyranny of Henry I's son John (1199-1216) obliged King John on June... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 304 pages
...1 Clown Hamlet 1 Clown Hamlet 1 Clown Hamlet Hamlet Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it: the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. - How long hast thou been a grave-maker?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, 130 Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so 132 near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. - How 133 long hast thou been gravemaker?... | |
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One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead. Ham. How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the... 
