Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Sixth ...Harper & brothers, 1882 |
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... speak : Let's talk of graves , of worms and epitaphs , Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth , Let's choose executors and talk of wills ; And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our ...
... speak : Let's talk of graves , of worms and epitaphs , Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth , Let's choose executors and talk of wills ; And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our ...
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... speak aloud : " O , I could hew up rocks , and fight with them , I am so angry at these abject terms ; And now , like Ajax Telamonius , On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury ! I am far better born than is the king ; More like a king ...
... speak aloud : " O , I could hew up rocks , and fight with them , I am so angry at these abject terms ; And now , like Ajax Telamonius , On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury ! I am far better born than is the king ; More like a king ...
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... Speak thou for me , and tell them what I did . [ Throwing down the Duke of Somerset's head . York . Richard hath best deserv'd of all my sons . But is your grace dead , my Lord of Somerset ? Norfolk . Such hope have all the line of John ...
... Speak thou for me , and tell them what I did . [ Throwing down the Duke of Somerset's head . York . Richard hath best deserv'd of all my sons . But is your grace dead , my Lord of Somerset ? Norfolk . Such hope have all the line of John ...
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... speak . 120 Warwick . Plantagenet shall speak first : hear him , lords ; And be you silent and attentive too , For he that interrupts him shall not live . King Henry . Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne , Wherein my ...
... speak . 120 Warwick . Plantagenet shall speak first : hear him , lords ; And be you silent and attentive too , For he that interrupts him shall not live . King Henry . Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne , Wherein my ...
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... speak . Ah , timorous wretch ! Thou hast undone thyself , thy son , and me , And given unto the house of York such head As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance . To entail him and his heirs unto the crown , What is it but to make ...
... speak . Ah , timorous wretch ! Thou hast undone thyself , thy son , and me , And given unto the house of York such head As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance . To entail him and his heirs unto the crown , What is it but to make ...
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2d folio Alarum Alban's arms battle of St bear blood blows brother Capell reads castle Clarence Coll conjecture courage crown death doth Duke of York Earl of Warwick edition England Enter KING EDWARD Exeter Exeunt eyes fear fight France friends gentle give Gloster hand Hanmer reads hath head hear heart heaven heir Henry VI Henry's honour house of Lancaster house of York Johnson Keeper King Henry King Lewis king's Lady Bona Lady Grey Lancaster London Lord Clifford Malone March Messenger Middleham Castle Montague ne'er Norfolk Northumberland oath old play Oxford pity Plantagenet poet Prince Queen Margaret remarks rest revenge Rich Richard Richard III Rutland Sandal Castle SCENE Shakespeare Shakspere shalt slain soldiers Somerset speak stand stay Steevens sweet tears tell thee Theo thine thou art thou hast thy father unto wilt words ΙΟ
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Page 154 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 126 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother ; And this word love...
Page 61 - Ah, what a life were this ! How sweet ! How lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes, it doth; a thousand fold it doth.
Page 61 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 165 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 79 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 61 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 14 - God's name, let it go: I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 115 - I that ? my mangled body shows, My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows, That I must yield my body to the earth, And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
Page 124 - The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush...