Page images
PDF
EPUB

Hath but a losing office; and his tongue

Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,

Remember'd knolling a depart

ing friend.

King Henry IV. Part II, Act I, Scene 1.

Prince John-My lord of York, it better show'd with you,

When that your flock assembled by the bell,

Encircled you, to hear with rev

erence

Your exposition on the holy text.

King Henry IV. Part II, Act IV, Scene 2.

King Henry

What! canst thou not forbear me

half an hour?

Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself;

And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear,

That thou art crowned.

King Henry IV.

Part II, Act IV, Scene 4.

Reignier Why ring not out the bells aloud

throughout the town?

Dauphin, command the citizens make

bonfires,

And feast and banquet in the open

streets,

To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.

King Henry VI. Part I, Act I, Scene 6.

French General -Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum a warning bell

Sings heavy music to thy tim

orous soul.

And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.

King Henry VI, Part I, Act IV, Scene 2.

York - And in the end being rescued, I have seen

him

Caper upright like a wild Morisco,

Shaking the bloody darts, as he his bells. King Henry VI. Part II, Act III, Scene 1.

York-Ring, bells, aloud, burn, bonfires, clear and

bright,

To entertain great England's lawful king. King Henry VI. Part II, Act V, Scene 1.

Warwick-Neither the king, nor he that loves him

best,

The proudest he that holds up Lan

caster,

Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shakes his bells.

King Henry VI, Part III, Act I, Scene 1.

Father-Far from my heart thine image n'er shall

Surrey

go,

My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell
King Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene 5.

I'll startle you

Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench

Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal.

King Henry VIII. Act III, Scene 2.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
Than you shall hear the surly, sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. Sonnet LXXI.

My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal,
My wether's bell rings doleful knell.

The Passionate Pilgrim.

Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells

With trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon's bells. The Rape of Lucrece.

For sorrow like a heavy hanging bell,

Once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; Then little strength rings out the doleful knell. The Rape of Lucrece.

And now his grief may be compared well

To one sore sick, that hears the passing bell.

Venus and Adonis.

Chapter XIV

MEMORY'S BELLS

THE BELLS OF SHANDON

FRANCIS MAHONY (FATHER PROUT).

With deep affection

And recollection

I often think of

Those Shandon bells,

Whose sounds so wild would,

In the days of childhood,

Fling round my cradle

Their magic spells.

On this I ponder
Where'er I wander,

And thus grow fonder,

Sweet Cork, of thee

With thy bells of Shandon,
That sound so grand, on

The pleasant waters

Of the river Lee.

I've heard bells chiming

Full many a chime in,

« PreviousContinue »