Shakespeare's History of King Henry the 5thHarper & Bros., 1893 - 182 pages |
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... entered on the Registers of the Stationers ' Company , May 14 , 1594 , to Thomas Creede , as " a booke intituled the Famous Victories of Henrye the Fyft , conteyninge the honorable battell of Agincourt , " but it is known that the ...
... entered on the Registers of the Stationers ' Company , May 14 , 1594 , to Thomas Creede , as " a booke intituled the Famous Victories of Henrye the Fyft , conteyninge the honorable battell of Agincourt , " but it is known that the ...
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... entered gravely upon his manhood . He has made very real to himself the long , careful , and joyless life of his father who had won for him this " golden care . " His heart is full of tenderness for this sad father , to whom he had been ...
... entered gravely upon his manhood . He has made very real to himself the long , careful , and joyless life of his father who had won for him this " golden care . " His heart is full of tenderness for this sad father , to whom he had been ...
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... in Eastcheap , formerly Mistress Quickly , and now married to Pistol . Lords , Ladies , Officers , Soldiers , Citizens , Messengers , and Attendants . Chorus . SCENE : England ; afterwards France . PROLOGUE . Enter Chorus . Chorus . O for ...
... in Eastcheap , formerly Mistress Quickly , and now married to Pistol . Lords , Ladies , Officers , Soldiers , Citizens , Messengers , and Attendants . Chorus . SCENE : England ; afterwards France . PROLOGUE . Enter Chorus . Chorus . O for ...
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William Shakespeare. PROLOGUE . Enter Chorus . Chorus . O for a Muse of fire , that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention , A kingdom for a stage , princes to act , And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the ...
William Shakespeare. PROLOGUE . Enter Chorus . Chorus . O for a Muse of fire , that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention , A kingdom for a stage , princes to act , And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the ...
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... Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF ELY . Canterbury . My lord , I'll tell you ; that self bill is urg'd , Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign Was like , and had indeed against us pass'd ; But that the ...
... Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY and the BISHOP OF ELY . Canterbury . My lord , I'll tell you ; that self bill is urg'd , Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign Was like , and had indeed against us pass'd ; But that the ...
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Agincourt Alice aunchient Bardolph battle BISHOP OF ELY blood brother Burgundy Cambridge Canterbury Captain Chorus Coll constable of France crown Cymb daie Dauphin doth duke of Burgognie duke of Excester DUKES OF BERRI Earl of Cambridge earle emendation English Englishmen enimies Erpingham Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes fair father favours Fluellen folio reading French French King French Soldier gentle give Gloucester glove goot Gower grace hand Harfleur hath heart herald Holinshed honour Hostess John Johnson Kate Katherine King Henry king of England king's leek liege look Macb Macmorris majesty Malone means mercy Montjoy never night noble Orleans passage Pistol play pridge princes prol quarto Queen Rambures ransom Rich Saint Salique SCENE Schmidt soul speak Steevens quotes sword tell Temp thee thine Thomas Creede thou thought treason unto valiant victorie wear Westmoreland Williams word
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Page 35 - Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Page 96 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition...
Page 95 - God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires; But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 35 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 91 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave ; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, GetS him tO rest, cramm'd with distressful bread ; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell ; i'ii.
Page 95 - I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour, As one man more, methinks , would share from me, For the best hope I have. O , do not wish one more ! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart...
Page 25 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 11 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him!
Page 34 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 60 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...