...thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. William Shakespeare Sixteenth century IF I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride And hug it in mine arms. • ET nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you: who- Teresa of Aviia ever has God lacks nothing....

...about her argument for the insignificance of death: "The sense of death is most in apprehension. / And the poor beetle that we tread upon. / In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant die." In short, death is death — so what's the big problem ? The audience may wince at Isabella's...

...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.65 80 CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flow'ry tenderness?...

...desire to preserve her own. She succeeds in provoking what sounds like the response she wants. Cla. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution...encounter darkness as a bride And hug it in mine arms. (80-84) The interest in unconscious verbal self-betrayal in this play is directly proportional to its...

...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flow'ry tenderness? If...

...faith that your welfare is ever under the watchful eye of our Savior. Your quote from Shakespeare — "If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms" — sounds so unlike you, John. If you must embrace anything, or anyone, then tell me only that we...

...darkness as a metaphor for death, as in Claudio's brave (and temporary) pledge in Measure for Measure: 'If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride, / And hug it in mine arms' (in. i. 82-4). To acknowledge 'this thing of darkness' is to look death in the face, and to see that...

...beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO: Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution...encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms. ISABELLA: There spake my brother; there my father's grave Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:...

...on. (III.i.42-4) Moments later, speaking to his sister, he eroticizes his very willingness to die: If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride And hug it in mine arms. (III.i.82-4) But, shortly after the Duke leaves, his desire to live returns, stronger than ever. What...

...drawing on a characteristic universal sympathy: Dar'stthoudie? The sense of death is most in apprehensio And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Or he weaves the insect into a metaphor for the whole art of statehood in Troilus and Cressida: When...