Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Sixth...Harper & brothers, 1887 |
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1st folio 2d folio Alarum Alban's arms battle of St battle of Wakefield bear blood blows brother Capell reads castle Clarence Coll conjecture courage crown death doth 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 Johnson Keeper King Henry King Lewis king's Lady Bona Lady Grey Lancaster London Lord Clifford Malone March Messenger Middleham Castle Montague ne'er Norfolk Northumberland oath old play Oxford pity Plantagenet Prince Queen Margaret remarks rest revenge Rich Richard Rutland Sandal Castle SCENE Shakespeare Shakspere shalt slain soldiers Somerset speak stand stay Steevens sweet tears tell thee Theo thine thou art thou hast 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 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 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 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 61 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
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...
Page 61 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet, how lovely ! Gives not the 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 1 0, yes, it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth.
Page 115 - I that ? my mangled body shows, My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows, That I must yield my body to the earth, And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe. Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.
Page 124 - The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush...