The Tragedy of King Richard IIClarendon Press, 1884 - 158 pages |
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... face to face , And frowning brow to brow , ourselves will hear The accuser and the accused freely speak : High - stomach'd are they both and full of ire , In rage deaf as the sea , hasty as fire . Enter BOLINGBROKE and MOWBRAY ...
... face to face , And frowning brow to brow , ourselves will hear The accuser and the accused freely speak : High - stomach'd are they both and full of ire , In rage deaf as the sea , hasty as fire . Enter BOLINGBROKE and MOWBRAY ...
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... face And bid his ears a little while be deaf , Till I have told this slander of his blood , How God and good men hate so foul a liar , 90 100 ΙΙΟ King Richard . Mowbray , impartial are our eyes and ears : Were he my brother , nay , my ...
... face And bid his ears a little while be deaf , Till I have told this slander of his blood , How God and good men hate so foul a liar , 90 100 ΙΙΟ King Richard . Mowbray , impartial are our eyes and ears : Were he my brother , nay , my ...
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... face . [ Exit Gaunt . King Richard . We were not born to sue , but to command ; Which since we cannot do to make you friends , Be ready , as your lives shall answer it , At Coventry , upon Saint Lambert's day ; There shall your swords ...
... face . [ Exit Gaunt . King Richard . We were not born to sue , but to command ; Which since we cannot do to make you friends , Be ready , as your lives shall answer it , At Coventry , upon Saint Lambert's day ; There shall your swords ...
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... so help you truth and God ! Embrace each other's love in banishment ; Nor never look upon each other's face ; Nor never write , regreet , nor reconcile This louring tempest of your home - bred hate ; 14 KING RICHARD II .
... so help you truth and God ! Embrace each other's love in banishment ; Nor never look upon each other's face ; Nor never write , regreet , nor reconcile This louring tempest of your home - bred hate ; 14 KING RICHARD II .
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... faces , Awaked the sleeping rheum , and so by chance Did grace our hollow parting with a tear . K. Rich . What said our cousin when you parted with him ? Aumerle . ' Farewell : ' And , for my heart disdained that my tongue Should so ...
... faces , Awaked the sleeping rheum , and so by chance Did grace our hollow parting with a tear . K. Rich . What said our cousin when you parted with him ? Aumerle . ' Farewell : ' And , for my heart disdained that my tongue Should so ...
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According to Holinshed arms Aumerle Bagot banish'd banishment Bishop of Carlisle blood Boling Bolingbroke Bushy Carlisle castle cloth Compare 2 Henry Cotgrave cousin Crown 8vo death Demy 8vo deposed doth Duchess Duke of Aumarle Duke of Hereford Duke of Norfolk Earl England English Enter Exeunt Exton farewell fear Fitzwater folios read fourth quartos French Gloucester grace grief Hamlet hand hath haue heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Holinshed honour Introduction and Notes John of Gaunt Julius Cæsar King John King Richard Kyng Lancaster land liege lord M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition Macbeth majesty Marshal means Merchant of Venice noble Northumberland omitted Oxford pardon passage Percy play Queen realme Rich Richard III Ross royal Salisbury sayd scene sense Shakespeare sorrow soul speak thee Third Edition thou tongue traitor treason uncle verb W. W. Skeat Westminster Windsor word
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Page 18 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 22 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 21 - This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself .Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 22 - That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 45 - 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?
Page 129 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 128 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 98 - O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover that stand bare! How many be commanded that command ! How much low peasantry would then be...
Page 94 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 109 - Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...