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... French ; and as the latter were numerically as five to one , the English might be pardoned for some national vanity and exultation at the result . After this , we have a gap of between four and five years ( bridged over by the narrative ...
... French ; and as the latter were numerically as five to one , the English might be pardoned for some national vanity and exultation at the result . After this , we have a gap of between four and five years ( bridged over by the narrative ...
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... French nobles and English soldiers , brings before us again the wild revellers of Eastcheap , Pistol and Bardolph , with Nym and Mrs Quickly , the hostess , now married to Pistol . A new character , Fluellen , a brave , garrulous , and ...
... French nobles and English soldiers , brings before us again the wild revellers of Eastcheap , Pistol and Bardolph , with Nym and Mrs Quickly , the hostess , now married to Pistol . A new character , Fluellen , a brave , garrulous , and ...
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... French lords . Governor of Harfleur . MONTJOY , a French herald . Ambassadors to the king of England . ISABEL , queen of France . KATHARINE , daughter to Charles and Isabel . ALICE , a lady attending on her . Hostess of a tavern in ...
... French lords . Governor of Harfleur . MONTJOY , a French herald . Ambassadors to the king of England . ISABEL , queen of France . KATHARINE , daughter to Charles and Isabel . ALICE , a lady attending on her . Hostess of a tavern in ...
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... French ambassador , upon that instant , Crav'd audience : and the hour , I think , is come To give him hearing : is it four o'clock ? 90 Ely . It is . Cant . Then go we in , to know his embassy ; Which I could , with a ready guess ...
... French ambassador , upon that instant , Crav'd audience : and the hour , I think , is come To give him hearing : is it four o'clock ? 90 Ely . It is . Cant . Then go we in , to know his embassy ; Which I could , with a ready guess ...
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... French unjustly gloze To be the realm of France , and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar . Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany , Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe : Where ...
... French unjustly gloze To be the realm of France , and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar . Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany , Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe : Where ...
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Alice answer appear battle better blood bring brother Cant Captain cause Charles Chorus claim comes crown dauphin dead dear death desire doth Duke England English Enter Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes face fair father fear field Fluellen Follow force France French friends give glove grace Hamlet hand Harry hath head hear heart Henry Holinshed honour Host Kath keep kill king KING HENRY knight leek liege live look lord majesty master meaning mind never noble occurs once peace Pist Pistol play poor pray present princes SCENE sense Shakespeare soldier soul speak sword tell term thee things thou thought treason turn unto verb wear
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Page 31 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 63 - ... of the king's laws in now the king's quarrel : where they feared the death, they have borne life away ; and where they would be safe, they perish : then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 39 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture : let us swear That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not, For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 78 - Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth : it is called Wye at Monmouth ; but it is out of my prains, what is the name of the other river : but 'tis all one ; 'tis so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
Page 71 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say " Tomorrow is Saint Crispian " : Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say " These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 128 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 71 - And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition.
Page 39 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 71 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall...
Page 31 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet.