Both Uses of
conscience
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience: and so I leave you.†
Scene 1.1 *conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the wise,—if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment to the contrary,—to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior