Shakespeare's King Henry v, with notes, examination papers, and plan of preparation |
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... fair Katharine of France ; ' and in the play of King Henry V. we have the fulfilment of the dramatist's promise . The stage was already in possession of a play entitled The famous Victories of Henry the Fifth , but Shakespeare made no ...
... fair Katharine of France ; ' and in the play of King Henry V. we have the fulfilment of the dramatist's promise . The stage was already in possession of a play entitled The famous Victories of Henry the Fifth , but Shakespeare made no ...
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... fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy church . Cant . The courses of his youth promis'd it not . The breath no sooner left his father's body , But that his wildness , mortified in him , Seem'd to die too : yea , at that very ...
... fair regard . Ely . And a true lover of the holy church . Cant . The courses of his youth promis'd it not . The breath no sooner left his father's body , But that his wildness , mortified in him , Seem'd to die too : yea , at that very ...
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... fair Queen Isabel , his grandmother , Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare , Daughter to Charles the foresaid Duke of Lorraine : By the which marriage , the line of Charles the Great Was re - united to the crown of France . 85 So that , as ...
... fair Queen Isabel , his grandmother , Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare , Daughter to Charles the foresaid Duke of Lorraine : By the which marriage , the line of Charles the Great Was re - united to the crown of France . 85 So that , as ...
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... fair cousin dauphin ; for , we hear , 230 235 Your greeting is from him , not from the king . Amb . May ' t please your majesty to give us leave Freely to render what we have in charge ; Or shall we sparingly show you far off 240 The ...
... fair cousin dauphin ; for , we hear , 230 235 Your greeting is from him , not from the king . Amb . May ' t please your majesty to give us leave Freely to render what we have in charge ; Or shall we sparingly show you far off 240 The ...
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... fair action may on foot be brought . 300 305 310 [ Exeunt . ACT II . PROLOGUE . Enter CHORus . Chor . Now all the youth of England are on fire , And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; Now thrive the armourers , and honour's thought ...
... fair action may on foot be brought . 300 305 310 [ Exeunt . ACT II . PROLOGUE . Enter CHORus . Chor . Now all the youth of England are on fire , And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; Now thrive the armourers , and honour's thought ...
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Agincourt Alarums Alençon Alice Bard Bardolph Bates battle behold blood brother Cant Captain Chorus constable Constable of France cousin crown dative dauphin dear death doth Duke Duke of Burgundy dukedoms Earl Earl of Cambridge England English Enter KING HENRY Ermengare Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fear Fluellen Follow France French friends give GLOSTER glove goot Gower grace Hamlet Harfleur Harry hath heart Henry IV herald Holinshed honour Host humour Julius Cæsar Kate Kath Katharine king's knight leek liege look Lord Scroop Macbeth Macedon Macmorris majesty meaning Merchant of Venice mercy mighty mock MONTJOY never noble orld Pist Pistol play pray pridge princes prol PROLOGUE ransom Salique SCENE Shakespeare soldier soul speak swear sweet sword tell thee thine treason unto valiant verb wear word
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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.