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... enemy as it is I were better to be eaten to death with rust , than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion . Ch . Just . Well , be honest , be honest ; and God bless . your expedition . Fal . Will your lordship lend me a thousand ...
... enemy as it is I were better to be eaten to death with rust , than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion . Ch . Just . Well , be honest , be honest ; and God bless . your expedition . Fal . Will your lordship lend me a thousand ...
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... enemy's battle , as thou hast done in a woman's petti- coat ? Fee . I will do my good will , sir : you can have no more . Fal . Well said , good woman's tailor ! well said , coura- geous Feeble ! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful ...
... enemy's battle , as thou hast done in a woman's petti- coat ? Fee . I will do my good will , sir : you can have no more . Fal . Well said , good woman's tailor ! well said , coura- geous Feeble ! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful ...
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... enemy ; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife . And , for a retreat , how swiftly will this Feeble , the woman's tailor , run off ? O , give me the spare men , and spare me the great ones . Put me a caliver ...
... enemy ; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife . And , for a retreat , how swiftly will this Feeble , the woman's tailor , run off ? O , give me the spare men , and spare me the great ones . Put me a caliver ...
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... enemies . Hast . We have sent forth already . Arch . ' Tis well done.— My friends and brethren in these great ... enemy : And , by the ground they hide , I judge their number Upon , or near , the rate of thirty thousand . Mowb . The just ...
... enemies . Hast . We have sent forth already . Arch . ' Tis well done.— My friends and brethren in these great ... enemy : And , by the ground they hide , I judge their number Upon , or near , the rate of thirty thousand . Mowb . The just ...
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... enemy to peace , Troop in the throngs of military men ; But , rather , show awhile like fearful war , To diet rank minds , sick of happiness , And purge th ' obstructions , which begin to stop Our very veins of life . Hear me more ...
... enemy to peace , Troop in the throngs of military men ; But , rather , show awhile like fearful war , To diet rank minds , sick of happiness , And purge th ' obstructions , which begin to stop Our very veins of life . Hear me more ...
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Page 85 - 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: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here; And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's...
Page 15 - 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 : Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold ; The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly...
Page 55 - O Sleep, 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...
Page 43 - That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. 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. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God...
Page 56 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst 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.
Page 4 - But I— that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass— I— that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph— I— that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 96 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm, in erecting a grammar-school ; and whereas, before, our fore-fathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face, that thou hast men about thee, that usually talk of a noun, and a verb, and such abominable words, as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Page 84 - 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 106 - Like to the senators of th' antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in good time he may) from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 43 - 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, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.