King Richard II ; King Henry IVBradbury, Agnew, and Company, 1866 - Drama |
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... hath received eight thousand nobles In name of lendings , for your highness ' soldiers ; The which he hath detain'd for lewd employ- ments , Like a false traitor and injurious villain . Besides I say , and will in battle prove , - Or ...
... hath received eight thousand nobles In name of lendings , for your highness ' soldiers ; The which he hath detain'd for lewd employ- ments , Like a false traitor and injurious villain . Besides I say , and will in battle prove , - Or ...
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... Hath caused his death : the which if wrongfully , Let Heaven revenge ; for I may never lift An angry arm against His minister . Duch . Where then , alas ! may I complain myself ? Gaunt . To Heaven , the widow's champion and defence ...
... Hath caused his death : the which if wrongfully , Let Heaven revenge ; for I may never lift An angry arm against His minister . Duch . Where then , alas ! may I complain myself ? Gaunt . To Heaven , the widow's champion and defence ...
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... hath a quiet breast . K. Rich . Farewell , my lord : securely I espy Virtue with valour couched in thine eye . Order the trial , marshal , and begin . [ The KING and the Lords return to their seats . Mar. Harry of Hereford , Lancaster ...
... hath a quiet breast . K. Rich . Farewell , my lord : securely I espy Virtue with valour couched in thine eye . Order the trial , marshal , and begin . [ The KING and the Lords return to their seats . Mar. Harry of Hereford , Lancaster ...
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... hath thrown his warder down . K. Rich . Let them lay by their helmets and their spears , And both return back to their chairs again : Withdraw with us : and let the trumpets sound , While we return these dukes what we decree . [ A long ...
... hath thrown his warder down . K. Rich . Let them lay by their helmets and their spears , And both return back to their chairs again : Withdraw with us : and let the trumpets sound , While we return these dukes what we decree . [ A long ...
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... Hath from the number of his banish'd years Pluck'd four away : - [ to BOLING . ] six frozen winters spent , Return with welcome home from banishment . Boling . How long a time lies in one little word ! Four lagging winters , and four ...
... Hath from the number of his banish'd years Pluck'd four away : - [ to BOLING . ] six frozen winters spent , Return with welcome home from banishment . Boling . How long a time lies in one little word ! Four lagging winters , and four ...
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ARCHBISHOP OF YORK arms art thou Aumerle banish'd Bard Bardolph BISHOP OF CARLISLE blood Blunt Boling Bolingbroke breath Bushy Colevile cousin crown Davy dead death Doll doth Douglas Duch duke duke of Hereford earl Eastcheap Exeunt Exit eyes Falstaff Farewell father fear friends Gaunt give Glend Glendower grace grief hand Harry Harry Percy hath head hear heart heaven Hereford hither honour horse Host Hotspur Jack John of Gaunt KING HENRY KING RICHARD Lady Lancaster liege live look lord majesty master Shallow Mortimer Mowb Mowbray never night noble North Northumberland pardon peace Percy Pist Poins pr'ythee pray PRINCE JOHN prince of Wales Queen Re-enter Rich rogue SCENE Shal sir John sir John Falstaff sorrow soul speak sweet sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast tongue traitor uncle unto Westmoreland wilt word York
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Page 264 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 124 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 63 - God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 97 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.
Page 57 - Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king ? Car.
Page 87 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 197 - Honour ? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it 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 56 - All murder'd : — for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court : and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 197 - 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 265 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.