All 3 Uses of
conscience
in
The Winter's Tale
- I appeal To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes Came to your court, how I was in your grace, How merited to be so; since he came, With what encounter so uncurrent I Have strain'd t' appear thus: if one jot beyond The bound of honour, or in act or will That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin Cry fie upon my grave!†
Scene 3.2conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- In my conscience, The heavens with that we have in hand are angry, And frown upon 's.†
Scene 3.3
- Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with conscience take it.†
Scene 4.4 *
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior