distilment

The pleasure of the poet, and the reader, is seeing these mean little memes circulating freely, doing their damage, a leperous distilment poured into the porches of our ears.

Hullabaloo 2004

And what "leperous distilment" does one pour on a porch?

Hullabaloo 2004

Sleeping within my orchard, as my custom was in the afternoon, on my secure hour thy uncle stole with cursed juice of hebenon in a vial, and did pour the leprous distilment into mine ears, that curdled my blood.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

The wretches who have been for three years pouring their leperous distilment into the ears of Great Britain had preoccupied the ground, and were determined to silence the minister, if they could.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

But the loathly "leperous distilment" taints and spoils, without in any way subserving "perfection," artistic or otherwise.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 Various

Before the new Shakespeare Society, 1882, it was contended and proved to the satisfaction of the Society, that "the cursed Hebena," the "leperous distilment poured into the chambers of mine ears," told of, so pathetically, by the sad ghost of Hamlet's father, was the

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

As an example, under _Distilment_ he correctly quotes from _Hamlet_, 'And in the porches of mine ears did pour the leperous distilment.'

The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876

And that royal ear was lent, and almost fatal was the distilment poured into its porches.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c John Lothrop Motley 1845

The poison theme is admirably heightened so that we see David Rubin's fine Claudius miming the insertion of the "leperous distilment" into old ­Hamlet's ear even as the Ghost describes it, and later Rubin whips a toxic bottle out of his pocket to envenom Laertes's sword.

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And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect

The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators 1793