 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 340 pages
...and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. I had rather hear a brazen can'stick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, And that would...poetry. "Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 130 GLENDOWER Come, you shall have Trent turned. HOTSPUR I do not care. I'll give thrice so much land... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...greatest of 'honour' experts, considers that a purely business proposition calls his honour in question : I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land To any...mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. (l Henry 1^ ill. i. 137) So, too, with the kingly ideal. It is of all these the most universal, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, illiam Shakespeare OWEN GLENDOWER. Come, you shall have Trent turn'd. HOTSPUR. I do not care: I'll give thrice so much... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would...edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag. (i Henry IV, HI, i, 128) He appended the first two of these lines to... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...by Glendower, expresses his dislike of ballad-mongers: I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would...edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag. (1 Hen. IV, III, i, 131-5) His similes prove Hotspur to be a poet in... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - Business & Economics - 2005 - 496 pages
...of transfer nor accumulation - it is his property only whilst he has health, - it is his LABOUR. * "I'll give thrice so much land To any well-deserving...mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair." SHAKSPEARE. - Henry IV, Act 3. It would exceed the limits of a small pamphlet to enter elaborately... | |
 | Megan S. Lloyd - Drama - 2007 - 230 pages
...and cry mew Than one ol these same metre ballad-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen cunstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree; And that would...as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuttIing nag. (III. i. 127-33) In Act III scene i, attacking the very essence of Welshness, from language,... | |
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I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 
