History of King Henry the Sixth, Part 3Harper, 1890 |
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1st folio 20 King 2d folio Alarum Alban's arms battle of St battle of Wakefield blood blows brother Capell reads castle Clarence Coll conjecture courage crown death doth Duke of Gloster Duke of York Earl of Warwick edition England Enter KING EDWARD Exeter Exeunt eyes fear fight France friends gentle give Gloster hand Hanmer reads hath head hear heart heaven heir Henry VI Henry's honour house of Lancaster house of York Keeper King Edward King Henry King Lewis king's Lady Bona Lady Grey Lancaster leave London March Messenger Montague Norfolk Northumberland oath old play Oxford pity Plantagenet poet Prince Queen Margaret rest revenge Richard Rolfe Rolfe's Rutland Sandal Castle SCENE Shakespeare Shakspere slain soldiers Somerset speak stand stay Steevens sweet tears tell thee Theo thine thou art thou hast throne thy father unto wilt words
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Page 61 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 154 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 126 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother ; And this word love...
Page 60 - So is the equal poise of this fell war. Here on this molehill will I sit me down. To whom God will, there be the victory ! For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too, Have chid me from the battle, swearing both They prosper best of all when I am thence. Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ; For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain...
Page 151 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 61 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 165 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 79 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 14 - God's name, let it go: I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 13 - All murther'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...