 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.1 12-18) How is England to rest... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...arms And we shall shock them! Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...Napoleonic scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the...wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...coming home of her revolted barons, that is, unity; and truth to herself. Here is our final speech: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (v. vii. 1 12) This is spoken by the Bastard, Faulconbridge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our grefs. — e, It did not lie there when I went to bed. MARCUS naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeun . sail, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...becomes momentarily his old self again for the play's final lines, with its rousing patriotic appeal: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them! The Bastard, 'Brave soldier' (5.6.13), is surely meant to be in armour here, and resume his image as... | |
 | Lily Bess Campbell - Drama - 2005 - 368 pages
...THE TROUBLESOME REIGN OF KING JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S King John closes with _Jits most often quoted words: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes arc come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall... | |
 | Margaret Gaskin - History - 2006 - 472 pages
...jewel": Richard II. Shakespeare was a favorite oracle now, with the littleknown King John much plundered: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Colin Perry read this in an American magazine: Perry, p.... | |
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This England never did (nor never shall) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make... 
