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What does "Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I’d set my ten commandments in your face" mean?
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 1 commentFound in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II. Does it just mean the speaker wants to scratch the subject’s face?
Yep: exactly.The Ten Commandments were engraved on stone tablets. The Duchess of Gloucester is saying she’d like to scratch Queen Margaret’s face like that.
1 responses to “What does "Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I’d set my ten commandments in your face" mean?”
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Yep: exactly.
The Ten Commandments were engraved on stone tablets. The Duchess of Gloucester is saying she’d like to scratch Queen Margaret’s face like that.
References :
Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BuE1aeI_J7YC&pg=PA36&dq=%22Could+I+come+near+your+beauty+with+my+nails%22&client=firefox-a&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22Could%20I%20come%20near%20your%20beauty%20with%20my%20nails%22&f=false
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RAY G March 23rd, 2010 at 00:54