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adjective Anglo-Saxon arms Bagot banish'd banishment betwixt Bishop of Carlisle blood Boling Bolingbroke breath Bushy Calais Castle Comp cousin crown dear death deposing dost doth Duch Duke of Aumerle Duke of Hereford Duke of Norfolk Duke of York Earl of Wiltshire earth England Exeunt Exton eyes fair false farewell Fcap fear flatter folio reads French friends gage Gloster's grace Green grief hand hast hath head heart heaven hither Holinshed honour horse intransitive verb John of Gaunt Julius Cæsar king's land liege live London Lord Marshal Macbeth majesty meaning Mowbray's noble North Northumberland noun oath omitted pardon peace Percy play prince quartos Queen realm Rich Richard II Ross royal Salisbury SCENE Scroop sense Shakespeare sorrow soul sovereign speak stand swear sweet tears thee thine Thomas Mowbray thou art tongue traitor treason uncle unto verb weeping word ΙΟ
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Page 40 - This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement or pelting farm : England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Page 60 - All murder'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 36 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 65 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads; My gorgeous palace for a hermitage; My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown; My...
Page 27 - Rich. Rage must be withstood : — Give me his gage :— lions make leopards tame. Nor. Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame, And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Page 57 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord...
Page 40 - Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 60 - Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king ? Car.
Page 59 - Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, 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 80 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once, — " Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke !" Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — " I thank you, countrymen :" And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.