All 6 Uses of
discretion
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- BOTTOM I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my voice so, that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.†
Scene 1.2
- THESEUS True; and a goose for his discretion.†
Scene 5.1 *
- DEMETRIUS Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose.†
Scene 5.1
- THESEUS His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour; for the goose carries not the fox.†
Scene 5.1
- It is well; leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.†
Scene 5.1
- THESEUS It appears, by his small light of discretion, that he is in the wane: but yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(discretion as in: It is within her discretion.) the right to make a decision (and perhaps accompanying good judgment)