| John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery...delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couch'd in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him. Alarum. Enter a Sosr, that... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 256 pages
...embroider'd 'canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ! O yes, it doth; a thousand •fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely..."secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicacies, His "viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a "curious bed, When care, mistrust,... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1885 - 568 pages
...published in 1 709. P. 75, 1. 23. delicates, dainties. Cf. Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI, Act ii, Sc.5:' — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out...sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates' P. 76, 1. 19. tragedian, here a tragic author. Johnson gives the following example from Stillingfleet... | |
| Franklin Harvey Head - 1886 - 58 pages
...of the laborer whose physical weariness insures him a tranquil night's repose. Henry VI. says: — "And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His...tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Are far beyond a prince's delicates." And Henry V. says : — "Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1888 - 550 pages
...hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly2 sheep, Than doth a rich-eiubroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?...conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink3 out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure* and... | |
| Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - Warwickshire (England) - 1889 - 348 pages
...embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,...sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates." Another instance occurs in the poem of Argentill and Curran, by William Warner, published in 1586,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...their subjects' treachery ? O yes, it doth, a thousandfold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherds' homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather...prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, Hia body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treasons wait on him."i This is a true... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1890 - 200 pages
...silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude,...tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, v Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious... | |
| Archaeology - 1892 - 282 pages
...Shakespeare mentions them in several places, in one of which King Henry VI. speaks of — " . . . . the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out...tree's shade ; All which secure and sweetly he enjoys." J An interesting paper on Black Jacks and Bombards, by the late Llewellynn Jewitt, will be found in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1893 - 502 pages
...hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their 4silly sheep, «. Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy *"**'• To kings that fear their subjects'...His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His 6 wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, 6. comp. SK. HHIT. All which 'secure and sweetly he enjoys,... | |
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