 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 260 pages
...dust, And food for 'For worms,1 adds Hal, as Percy dies before being able to complete his sentence. When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. . . . But let my favours hide thy mangled face. . . . V.4.88-95 Hal speaks sadly, regretfully; there... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 340 pages
...small a bound ; But now two paces of the vilest earth 90 Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou...show of zeal. But let my favours hide thy mangled face ; He covers Hotspur's face And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself For doing these fair rites... | |
 | Daniel H. Garrison, Horace - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 420 pages
...poetic plural. For the paradox of a great spirit in a small grave, cf. Shakespeare Í Henry IV 5.4.89ff: When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. litus ... Matinum: either on the Adriatic coast, on the "spur" of the Italian boot (Mt. Gargano), or... | |
 | John Julius Norwich - History - 2001 - 438 pages
...only the battle of Shrewsbury but, effectively, Shakespeare's play. Prince Hal makes his noble speech When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman during which he covers the dead man's face with the... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 pages
...For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. As we have seen, Renaissance literature devoted to "killing" men and women into interpretive property... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...Hotspur — 1 Henry IV V.iv Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. Prince — 1 Henry IV V.iv To die, is to be a counterfeit;... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible of courtesy I should not make... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! RACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA, and others, maskt; with...friend? HERO. So you walk softly, and look sweetly, and thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wen sensible of courtesy, I should not make... | |
 | Nigel Rapport - Philosophy - 2003 - 308 pages
...ambitions), Harry Percy, the Prince of Wales, remarks: Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough ... (The Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Works, London: Oxford University Press, 436) This is the same... | |
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When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. 
