with a cudgel

From the gentle tone of dear good old Spenssie's "Sweet Thames, etc.." to that of King Lear when he howls, "Come fire and consume this earth, etc ...", then shifting to Brutus advising Senators to slay Caesar not cruelly but kindly, and then in the famous speech where Antony says, "Pardon me O piece of earth that I am meek and gentle with these butchers, etc..." to the image given by the Sergeant how Macbeth cut into two the enemy's commander, I hit with a cudgel those idols, and feel like Ben when he tells Willy triumphantly in Miller's "Death of a Salesman", "William, I went into the jungle and when I came back, I was rich."