...perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And die poor beede diat we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. CLAUDIO Why give you me this Claudio says he's not afraid to die. Isabella praises his courage and...

...interjection (a form of pish). 41. sufferance] That is, suffering. See Meas. for Meats. III, i, 80 : 'the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies.' See I, iii, 9, where it means endurance, as in Mer. of Fen. : 'For sufferance is the badge of all our...

...121. We must finde] WA WRIGHT: That is, experience, feel. Compare Meas. for Meas., III, i, 80, 'And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.' With Manacles through our ftreets, or elfe 125 Triumphantly treade on thy Countries ruine, And beare...

...Yerv different answers have heen given to this question. At one extreme there is the assumption that The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.6 At the other extreme we are told that the squashed heetle feels no more than we do when our...

...respect Ih. in a perpetual Honour. Darest thou die? The seme 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 shamed Think you I can a resolution fetch From Qowcry tenderness .-*...

...given one of the clearest statements of his wide-reaching sympathy: Isabella herself reminds us that the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. (m, i, 79-81) We may remember too that Barnardine, a convicted malefactor, seems to be introduced into...

...for what would have been seen as the meanest of them. 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. (Isabella in Measure for Measure, 3.1 [c. 1605]) In As You Like It a duke has been usurped by his brother...

...points out that the pain of death is largely imaginary: 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. (3.1.79-82) And Claudio delivers his impassioned speech on the terrors of the after-life. Claudio is...

...respect 85 Than a perpetual honor. 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. 90 CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness?...

...reported by survivors of wars, concentration camps and natural disasters. In 1605 Shakespeare wrote: The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.40 In pretty, poetic language the Bard usually expressed what most of his contemporaries felt....