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King Henry the Fifth , too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth . Gloucester . England ne'er had a king until his time . Virtue he had , deserving to command : His brandish'd sword did blind men with his ...
King Henry the Fifth , too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth . Gloucester . England ne'er had a king until his time . Virtue he had , deserving to command : His brandish'd sword did blind men with his ...
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For God's sake , let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been ... some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his ...
For God's sake , let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been ... some sleeping kill'd ; All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his ...
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Thus play I in one person many people , And none contented : sometimes am I king ; Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar , And so I am : then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king ; Then am I king'd again ; and by ...
Thus play I in one person many people , And none contented : sometimes am I king ; Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar , And so I am : then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king ; Then am I king'd again ; and by ...
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Contents
SIR WALTER RALEIGH 15521618 | 33 |
FULKE GREVILLE LORD BROOKE 15541628 | 49 |
GEORGE CHAPMAN 15601634 | 54 |
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| Title | The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry: Spencer to Crabbe Oxford Paperbacks Volume 1 of The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry, Oxford library of English poetry |
| Author | Oxford library of English poetry |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192827987, 9780192827982 |
| Length | 659 pages |
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