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" Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. "
King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and ... - Page 1838
by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709
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The Plays, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 358 pages
...good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang' Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 482 pages
...height, we are forgotten. Shakespear gave different advice, and himself acted upon it. " Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...deeds past, Which are devour'd as fast as they are made, ,i oT Forgot as soon as done : Persev'rance, dear my lord, Keeps Honour bright: to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail =• 11 In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For Honour travels...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 648 pages
...good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 3

Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...infinitely more forcible than I can, that I must conclude with rather a large quotation : ' Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.' " Again, ' Time is like a fashionable host, That...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...deeds pas'. : which are devourM • As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, . Anne» I have already. Glo. That was in thy rage : Speak it again, and, fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...good deeds past: which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have 'done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a trusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...p.oa deeds past : which are devour'd AI fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done : Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a trusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait...
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Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Romance, Volume 2

Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 304 pages
...that had passed might have been almost deemed a wild and baseless dream. CHAPTER VII. Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright — to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Trnilus and Cressida. THE terrible campaign of '44...
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