Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fourth: Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript, Volume 19, Issue 2Shakespeare Society, 1845 - 121 pages |
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Page xvii
... head in the hollow - bank . The MS . reads crispy , which sounds less harsh , though not so strictly metrical . The word is here used in the sense of wavy , not exactly curled . See Holme's Aca- demy of Armory , 1688 , ii . , 463 ; " a ...
... head in the hollow - bank . The MS . reads crispy , which sounds less harsh , though not so strictly metrical . The word is here used in the sense of wavy , not exactly curled . See Holme's Aca- demy of Armory , 1688 , ii . , 463 ; " a ...
Page xviii
... head that wears a crown . This is the arrangement of these lines in the MS . , and appears preferable to " low - lie - down , ' ' low - lie - down , " as some- times printed , or , " happy low , lie down , " the meaning of which is not ...
... head that wears a crown . This is the arrangement of these lines in the MS . , and appears preferable to " low - lie - down , ' ' low - lie - down , " as some- times printed , or , " happy low , lie down , " the meaning of which is not ...
Page xix
... head that wears a crown . " There are many other variations that would probably lead to much discussion , but we purposely refrain from entering upon them at present , merely premising that much caution and attentive deliberation should ...
... head that wears a crown . " There are many other variations that would probably lead to much discussion , but we purposely refrain from entering upon them at present , merely premising that much caution and attentive deliberation should ...
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... head from my shoulders : and sirra I haue cases of buckorum for the nonce to immaske our noted outward gar- ments . Prin . Yea , but I doubt they will be to hard for vs. Poyn . Well for two of them I know two of them to be as true ...
... head from my shoulders : and sirra I haue cases of buckorum for the nonce to immaske our noted outward gar- ments . Prin . Yea , but I doubt they will be to hard for vs. Poyn . Well for two of them I know two of them to be as true ...
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... head in the hollow banke . Blood - stained wt these valiant combatans Neuer did bare and rotten pollicy Colour her workeing wt such deadly wounds Nor neuer could the noble Mortimer Receiue so many : & all1 willingly Then lett not hime ...
... head in the hollow banke . Blood - stained wt these valiant combatans Neuer did bare and rotten pollicy Colour her workeing wt such deadly wounds Nor neuer could the noble Mortimer Receiue so many : & all1 willingly Then lett not hime ...
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Page 37 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Page 13 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 76 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 47 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 76 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Page 12 - ... off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.
Page 118 - Raspays also, Whippett and Pyngmedo, that ben lawyers therto : And I will have also wyne de Ryne, With new maid Clarye, that is good and fyne, Muscadell, Terantyne, and Bastard, With Ypocras and Pyment comyng afterwarde.