 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...go stand upon the beach, And hid the main flood bate Ins usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forhid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with... | |
 | Mathew Carey - African Americans - 1830 - 480 pages
...complete, seized his clothes and furniture, and turned him out of doors!!! " You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb, As seek to soften I lint (than which what's harder ?) His flinty heart." SHAKSPEARE. I hope the reader... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...go stand upon the beach. And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forhid the mountain pines To wag their high lops, and to make no noise, When they »re fretted with... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 pages
...— shall I say to you, Let them be free ; marry them to your heirs ? 6 You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ;] These lines afford another remarkable instance of variation in two different copies of the same... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1842 - 74 pages
...Lord F. Egerton, the passage is made to run correctly as follows:— " You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;" and so the passage stands in the 4to by Roberts, which the editors of the folio of 1623 evidently never... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for...lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag then- high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven ; You may as... | |
 | mrs. Walker - 1845 - 344 pages
...himself on all mankind for the wrongs he had been doomed to endure. " You might as well use questions with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You might as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise When they are... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...well go stand upon a beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well bid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; Sou may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their hieh tops, and to make no noise, When they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 690 pages
...understood thus: — " I pray you, think, [if] vou question with the Jew." You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb a ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they... | |
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You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb... 
