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... battle of Cressy is taken from Holinshed . In the second act we are brought to Southampton , the place of Henry's embarkation for France . The Duke of Bedford is the Prince John of Lancaster of King Henry IV . The Earl of Cambridge is ...
... battle of Cressy is taken from Holinshed . In the second act we are brought to Southampton , the place of Henry's embarkation for France . The Duke of Bedford is the Prince John of Lancaster of King Henry IV . The Earl of Cambridge is ...
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... battle he left a small company to keep his camp and carriage , which remained still in the village , and then calling his captain and followers about him , he made to them a right grave oration moving them to play the men , whereby to ...
... battle he left a small company to keep his camp and carriage , which remained still in the village , and then calling his captain and followers about him , he made to them a right grave oration moving them to play the men , whereby to ...
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... battle ) , so as of the meaner sort not past sixteen hundred . Of Englishmen there died at this battle , Edward Duke of York , the Earl of Suffolk , Sir Richard Kelly , and Davie Gamme , esquire , and of all other not above five - and ...
... battle ) , so as of the meaner sort not past sixteen hundred . Of Englishmen there died at this battle , Edward Duke of York , the Earl of Suffolk , Sir Richard Kelly , and Davie Gamme , esquire , and of all other not above five - and ...
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... battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , 1 A thousand pounds by the year . - Hall , who was one of Shake speare's authorities in this play , says , ' And the kyng to have ...
... battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , 1 A thousand pounds by the year . - Hall , who was one of Shake speare's authorities in this play , says , ' And the kyng to have ...
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... battle of Agincourt , Nov. 14 , 1416. Some commentators suppose that Shakespeare confounded this nobleman with John Holland , Duke of Exeter , who was married to Elizabeth , the king's aunt , but he was executed at Plashey in 1400 . 1 ...
... battle of Agincourt , Nov. 14 , 1416. Some commentators suppose that Shakespeare confounded this nobleman with John Holland , Duke of Exeter , who was married to Elizabeth , the king's aunt , but he was executed at Plashey in 1400 . 1 ...
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Page 39 - 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. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 96 - Captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant, you shall find, in the comparisons between 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...
Page 48 - 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...
Page 9 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 12 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been...
Page 21 - Where some, like magistrates correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in. their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 48 - In peace there's nothing- so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
Page 39 - 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 127 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It...
Page 48 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.