Shakespeare's King Henry iv. part 1, with explanatory and illustr. notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter, Volume 1 |
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... c . ] Falstaff here refers to credit in the sense of character . The word apparent anciently signified manifest , obviously true . shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art SCENE II . KING HENRY THE FOURTH , PART I. 11.
... c . ] Falstaff here refers to credit in the sense of character . The word apparent anciently signified manifest , obviously true . shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art SCENE II . KING HENRY THE FOURTH , PART I. 11.
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... refers to the clothes of criminals being the hangman's perquisite . 7 Gib cat , & c . ] Gib is a contraction of Gilbert , as Tib is of Tibert , both being names formerly given to cats . A gib cat was an old male cat . The melancholy ...
... refers to the clothes of criminals being the hangman's perquisite . 7 Gib cat , & c . ] Gib is a contraction of Gilbert , as Tib is of Tibert , both being names formerly given to cats . A gib cat was an old male cat . The melancholy ...
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... ' the dust , But I will lift the down - trod Mortimer 1 Speak of Mortimer . ] This refers to the sixth line of the king's last speech . As high i ' the air as this unthankful king SCENE III . KING HENRY THE FOURTH , PART I. 23.
... ' the dust , But I will lift the down - trod Mortimer 1 Speak of Mortimer . ] This refers to the sixth line of the king's last speech . As high i ' the air as this unthankful king SCENE III . KING HENRY THE FOURTH , PART I. 23.
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... refers to the person informed by the franklin . 5 Saint Nicholas ' clerks . ] Saint Nicholas was a patron saint of clerks or scholars ; and hence , as Nicholas , or old Nick , was a cant name for the devil , Warburton thinks that ...
... refers to the person informed by the franklin . 5 Saint Nicholas ' clerks . ] Saint Nicholas was a patron saint of clerks or scholars ; and hence , as Nicholas , or old Nick , was a cant name for the devil , Warburton thinks that ...
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... refers to the points or tagged laces that held the breeches . So in Twelfth Night , i . 5 , when the Clown says I am resolved on two points , ' Maria replies ' That , if one break , the other will hold ; or , if both break , your ...
... refers to the points or tagged laces that held the breeches . So in Twelfth Night , i . 5 , when the Clown says I am resolved on two points , ' Maria replies ' That , if one break , the other will hold ; or , if both break , your ...
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Page 114 - tis no matter ; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if Honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can Honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is Honour ? A word. What is that word, Honour ? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 17 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will awhile 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...
Page 26 - If he fall in, good night ! or sink or swim : Send danger from the east unto the west, So honour cross it from the north to south, And let them grapple : O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare ! North.
Page 18 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 21 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre 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 45 - I know you wise ; but yet no further wise, Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are; But yet a woman : and for secrecy, No lady closer : for I well believe, Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know 4 ; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate!
Page 21 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark!
Page 97 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 64 - Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Page 54 - No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.