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... Harry Percy , and brave Archibald , That ever - valiant and approved Scot , At Holmedon met , Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour ; As by discharge of their artillery , And shape of likelihood , the news was told ; For he , that ...
... Harry Percy , and brave Archibald , That ever - valiant and approved Scot , At Holmedon met , Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour ; As by discharge of their artillery , And shape of likelihood , the news was told ; For he , that ...
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... Harry . Oh , that it could be prov'd , That some night - tripping fairy had exchang'd In cradle - clothes , our children , where they lay , And call'd mine - Percy , his - Plantagenet ! Then would I have his Harry , and he mine . But ...
... Harry . Oh , that it could be prov'd , That some night - tripping fairy had exchang'd In cradle - clothes , our children , where they lay , And call'd mine - Percy , his - Plantagenet ! Then would I have his Harry , and he mine . But ...
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... Harry Percy here at Holmedon took , Were , as he says , not with such strength deny'd , As is deliver'd to your majesty . Hot . My liege , I did deny no prisoners . But , I remember , when the fight was done , When I was dry with rage ...
... Harry Percy here at Holmedon took , Were , as he says , not with such strength deny'd , As is deliver'd to your majesty . Hot . My liege , I did deny no prisoners . But , I remember , when the fight was done , When I was dry with rage ...
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... Harry Percy then had said , To such a person , and in such a place , At such a time , with all the rest re - told , May reasonably die , and never rise To do him wrong , or any way impeach What then he said , so he unsay it now . K. Hen ...
... Harry Percy then had said , To such a person , and in such a place , At such a time , with all the rest re - told , May reasonably die , and never rise To do him wrong , or any way impeach What then he said , so he unsay it now . K. Hen ...
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... Hot . You say true ; - Why , what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look , " when his infant fortune came to age , " And , " gentle Harry Percy , " and , 22 [ ACT I. KING HENRY IV .
... Hot . You say true ; - Why , what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look , " when his infant fortune came to age , " And , " gentle Harry Percy , " and , 22 [ ACT I. KING HENRY IV .
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Page 47 - Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them. With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 70 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon/ and so ends my catechism.
Page 5 - 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 be remembered : We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 15 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Page 17 - Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and...
Page 9 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Page 6 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 47 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Page 18 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 47 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.