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" This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre... "
King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V - Page 34
by William Shakespeare - 1826
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British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

David J. Baker, Willy Maley - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 322 pages
...oriented: This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth. Renowned for their deeds as far from home For Christian...Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son. (2.1.51-6) In its opposition of fullness and plenitude with mystical vacancy, the movement of this...
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Shakespeare's Serial History Plays

Nicholas Grene - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...of a past England is the crusade or holy war. England's royal kings, according to Gaunt, have been Renowned for their deeds as far from home For Christian...stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son. (2.1.53-6) reign, thus becomes a figure for a desire to go back as much as a delusive prospect for...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...191—209. For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulcher in stubborn Jewry Of the worlds ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear...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...
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The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

Robert E. Belknap - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 284 pages
...England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian...Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant...
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Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into Drama

John Baxter - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian...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...
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Richard II

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...Renowned for their deeds as far from home For Christian service and true chivalry 60 As is the sepulcher in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's...Dear for her reputation through the world. Is now leased out — I die pronouncing it — 65 Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with...
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Richard II

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - Performing Arts - 2011 - 355 pages
...Renowned for their deeds as far from home For Christian service and true chivalry 60 As is the sepulcher in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's...Dear for her reputation through the world. Is now leased out — I die pronouncing it — 65 Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with...
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The Globe, Volumes 12-13

William Henry Thorne - 1902
...V, tells — "Virgo Maria fave, propria pro dote; Georgi Miles, et Edwarde, Rex pie, confer opem." This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,...— 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...
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Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art

Daniel Tobin, Pimone Triplett - Poetry - 2008 - 314 pages
...England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian...— 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...
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