Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Act III. Scene I. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.* Act Iv.-Chorus. That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a poor and private displeasure can do against a monarch ! You may as well go about to turn the sun to ice, with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather. Act IV. Scene I. exact words used by Shakspere. In an early edition of the poet's works, the passage is thus, "His nose was as sharpe as a pen, and a table of green fields;" and in another copy, also an early one, it is written, "His nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze." *This speech, with some variations, is incorporated with the stage version of Richard the Third (Act v., Scene 5), and is part of the soliloquy uttered by the king from his tent prior to the battle of Bosworth field. O, hard condition! twin-born with greatness, Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing ! If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. Act v. Scene 2. She is a woman; therefore to be won.* Scene 3. Act v. * See also quotations from Titus Andronicus. KING HENRY VI.-PART II. Brave peers of England, pillars of the state, Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! * The play of Richard the Third, as presented on the stage, contains many extracts from Shakspere's Henry the Sixth. In the stage play, Richmond says (Act v., Scene 1), "Thrice is he arm'd that has his quarrel just." And in Act v., Scene 8, Richard exclaims, "Richard is hoarse with daring thee to arms." Many other passages too will be found quoted from one or other of the parts of Henry the Sixth. The well-known KING HENRY VI.-PART III. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. A little fire is quickly trodden out; which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. Act IV. Scene 8. KING HENRY. What scene of death hath Roscius now to act? GLOSTER, Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; exclamation in the acting play of Richard the Third (Act iv., Scene 4) 66 Off with his head! so much for Buckingham. is not to be found in Shakspere; it is an interpolated line And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house, Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths Act 1. Scene 1. I run before my horse to market. Ibid. To leave this keen encounter of our wits. Act 1. Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Scene 2. Ibid. And thus I clothe my naked villany So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. |