History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 1Harper & Brothers, 1880 |
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... Holinshed's Chronicles and from the old play of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth . A Sir John Oldcastle appears in the latter as one of Prince Henry's wild com- panions . That the poet adopted the name is evident from allusions ...
... Holinshed's Chronicles and from the old play of The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth . A Sir John Oldcastle appears in the latter as one of Prince Henry's wild com- panions . That the poet adopted the name is evident from allusions ...
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... Holinshed's humbler prose , " he passed his youth in wanton pastime and riotous misorder with a sort of misgoverned mates and un- thrifty play - feers . " On the other side of the varied and animated picture , Shakespeare has brought ...
... Holinshed's humbler prose , " he passed his youth in wanton pastime and riotous misorder with a sort of misgoverned mates and un- thrifty play - feers . " On the other side of the varied and animated picture , Shakespeare has brought ...
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... Rolfe's edition of the play is meant . The numbers of the lines ( except for 1 Henry IV . ) are those of the " Globe " ed . or of the " Acme " reprint of that ed . NOTES . INTRODUCTION . THE following extracts from Holinshed's History.
... Rolfe's edition of the play is meant . The numbers of the lines ( except for 1 Henry IV . ) are those of the " Globe " ed . or of the " Acme " reprint of that ed . NOTES . INTRODUCTION . THE following extracts from Holinshed's History.
Page 135
William Shakespeare. NOTES . INTRODUCTION . THE following extracts from Holinshed's History of England ( which we copy from Hunter's ed . ) comprise all the passages of any importance illustrative of the play : " OWEN GLENDOWER was son ...
William Shakespeare. NOTES . INTRODUCTION . THE following extracts from Holinshed's History of England ( which we copy from Hunter's ed . ) comprise all the passages of any importance illustrative of the play : " OWEN GLENDOWER was son ...
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... Holinshed , an omission of the comma after the word " governor " misled Shak- speare to call Mordake " eldest son to beaten Douglas . " The governor or regent of Scotland was Robert duke of Albany . See the 5th line on the next page ...
... Holinshed , an omission of the comma after the word " governor " misled Shak- speare to call Mordake " eldest son to beaten Douglas . " The governor or regent of Scotland was Robert duke of Albany . See the 5th line on the next page ...
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Anon Bardolph battle battle of Shrewsbury blood Bolingbroke Carrier character Clarke cousin coward crown cuckoo death devil dost doth Douglas drink Earl of Fife earl of March early eds Eastcheap edition editors English Enter Exeunt Exit faith Falstaff father fear Francis Gadshill give grace hanged Harry hath head hear heaven Henry Hotspur Henry IV Henry Percy Holinshed Holmedon honour horse Hostess Hotspur humour Jack Johnson King Henry king's Lady Percy London lord lord Henry Percy Macb Malone Mortimer never night noble Northumberland Owen Glendower Peto play Poins Prince of Wales prisoners prithee quartos remarks Rich Richard rogue sack says SCENE Schmidt Scot Shakespeare Shakspere Shrewsbury Sir John Sir John Falstaff speak Steevens quotes sweet sword tavern tell Temp thee thou art thou hast Vaughan Vernon Warb Welsh Westmoreland Worcester word Zounds
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Page 44 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 78 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish...
Page 76 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.
Page 193 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page 73 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Page 51 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! Wor.
Page 45 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners ; But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom...
Page 27 - This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth...
Page 105 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer? Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground, like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 148 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, — Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.