Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1880 |
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... follow'd , and so fairly won , Came not till now to dignify the times , Since Cæsar's fortunes ! Northumberland . How is this deriv'd ? Saw you the field ? came you from Shrewsbury ? 20 Lord Bardolph . I spake with one , my lord , that ...
... follow'd , and so fairly won , Came not till now to dignify the times , Since Cæsar's fortunes ! Northumberland . How is this deriv'd ? Saw you the field ? came you from Shrewsbury ? 20 Lord Bardolph . I spake with one , my lord , that ...
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... follow'd both with body and with mind , And doth enlarge his rising with the blood Of fair King Richard , scrap'd from Pomfret stones ; Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause , Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land ...
... follow'd both with body and with mind , And doth enlarge his rising with the blood Of fair King Richard , scrap'd from Pomfret stones ; Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause , Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land ...
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... follow your prescriptions , the wise may make some dram of a scruple , or indeed a scruple itself . 123 Chief - Fustice , I sent for you , when there were matters against you for your life , to come speak with me . Falstaff . As I was ...
... follow your prescriptions , the wise may make some dram of a scruple , or indeed a scruple itself . 123 Chief - Fustice , I sent for you , when there were matters against you for your life , to come speak with me . Falstaff . As I was ...
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... follow the young prince up and down , like his ill angel . Falstaff . Not so , my lord ; your ill angel is light ; but I hope he that looks upon me will take me without weighing : and yet , in some respects , I grant , I cannot go , I ...
... follow the young prince up and down , like his ill angel . Falstaff . Not so , my lord ; your ill angel is light ; but I hope he that looks upon me will take me without weighing : and yet , in some respects , I grant , I cannot go , I ...
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... follows , after you have laboured so hard , you should talk so idly ! Tell me , how many good young princes would do so , their fathers being so sick as yours at this time is ? Prince . Shall I tell thee one thing , Poins ? Poins . Yes ...
... follows , after you have laboured so hard , you should talk so idly ! Tell me , how many good young princes would do so , their fathers being so sick as yours at this time is ? Prince . Shall I tell thee one thing , Poins ? Poins . Yes ...
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Archbishop beseech blood brother Bullcalf called captain chamber Chief-Justice Clarence Clarke remarks Colevile Coll court cousin crown Davy dead death Doll doth drink earl marshall earl of Westmoreland early eds Eastcheap edition Enter Exeunt F. J. FURNIVALL faith father fear folio follow friends give Gloucester grace grief Harry Hastings hath head Henry IV Holinshed honour Hostess humour Johnson Julius Cæsar justice king's knight look Lord Bardolph Lord Hastings Macb majesty Malone Master Shallow Master Silence merry mind Mouldy Mowbray noble Northumberland omitted peace Pistol play Poins pray prick Prince John quarto reading rascal Rich rogue Rolfe Rolfe's royal says SCENE Schmidt Shakespeare sick Sir Dagonet Sir John Falstaff sleep speak speech spirit Steevens quotes swaggerers sweet sword tell thee thine thing thou art tion unto Warb Warwick whoreson wilt word
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Page 108 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 106 - It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, deliver'd o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 80 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie in treasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time ; And, by the necessary form of this, King Richard might create a perfect guess.
Page 24 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 133 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 205 - One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story with Sir John in it...
Page 117 - Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.
Page 79 - Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them. With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 13 - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page 88 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.