 Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in...  King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2 - Page 94by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 580 pages
...But, methinks, he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. Cade. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and...England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny ; the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; l and I will make it felony, to drink small beer ; all the realm... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 670 pages
...But, methinks, he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. Cade. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and...England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony, to drink small beer ; all the realm... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...discontent and of expectation which commonly inspires revolutions. Says Jack Cade to his followers : There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer ; all the realm... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...for very serious purposes. Thus in 2 Henry VI there is the demagogue Cade addressing his followers. Be brave then: for your captain is brave, and vows...England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny; the diree-hoop'd pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. All the realm... | |
 | Laura Caroline Stevenson - Drama - 2002 - 272 pages
...does so, forming a rebel 'army' by appealing to the craftsman's proverbial interest in food and drink: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves...three-hoop'd pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it a felony to drink small beer. All the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go... | |
 | Frangois Laroque - Drama - 1993 - 444 pages
...every dozen shall be thirteen and that he will introduce a wonderful system of prices and measures: There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. (iv. ii, 67-9)... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
..."hard hands" are confounded with "brave minds," and unbridled festivity proclaims a reign of plenty: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it a felony to drink small beer" (4.2.65-68).... | |
 | John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...piece to Jack Cade's rebellion, even a calculated bouleversement of his millennial picture in which There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. (First Part of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 196 pages
...revolt is not simply a parody of aristocratic sedition; it mocks all revolutionary political schemes: Be brave, then, for your captain is brave and vows...England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. Shakespeare's... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...and the contents Dies in the zeal of that which it presents. [Love's Labour's Lost, V.ii.517-19] (16) There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. [2 Henry VI,... | |
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