Sleeps in Elysium; next day, after dawn, DESCRIPTION OF THE MISERABLE ENGLISH ARMY. STATE OF THE Yon island's carrions, desperate of their bones, Ill-favour'dly become the morning field: Their ragged curtainst poorly are let loose, And our air shakes them passing scornfully. Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. Their horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hand: and the poor jades Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips; The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes; And in their pale dull mouths the gimmalt bit Lies foul with chew'd grass still and motionless; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. KING HENRY'S SPEECH BEFORE THE BATTLE OF AGIN COURT. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, 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 friends, And say-to-morrow is Saint Crispian: Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispian's day. Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day: Then shall our names, Familiar in their mouths as household words,Harry the king, Bedford, and Exeter, The sun. + Colours. + Ring Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,- DESCRIPTION OF THE DUKE OF YORK'S DEATH. He smil❜d me in the face, raught* me his hand, And, with a feeble gripe, says,- Dear my lord, Commend my service to my sovereign. So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck He threw his wounded arın, and kiss'd his lips; The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd; But all my mother came into mine eyes, ACT V. THE MISERIES OF WAR. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, Reached. † Ploughshare. To deracinate is to force up the roots. KING HENRY VL PART I. ACT I. GLORY. GLORY is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, ACT V. MARRIAGE. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.* For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, KING HENRY VI. PART II. ACT I A RESOLVED AND AMBITIOUS WOMAN. FOLLOW I must, I cannot go before, While Gloster bears this base and humble mind. * By the discretional agency of another. ACT II. GOD'S GOODNESS EVER TO BE REMEMBERED. THE DUCHESS OF GLOSTER'S REMONSTRANCE TO HER For, whilst I think I am thy married wife, ACT III. SILENT RESENTMENT DEEPEST. Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason. A GUILTY COUNTENANCE. Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world DESCRIPTION OF A MURDERED PERSON. See, how the blood is settled in his face! Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,‡ Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, Being all descended to the labouring heart; Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy; Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth To blush and beautify the cheek again. * Wrapped up in disgrace; alluding to the sheet of penance. † Deep-fetched. A body become inanimate in the common course of nature; to which violence has not brought a timeless end. But, see, his face is black, and full of blood; A GOOD CONSCIENCE. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted. Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. REMORSELESS HATRED. A plague upon them! Wherefore should I curse them? Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan, * by the ground that I am banish'd from, |