 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.1 12-18) How is England to rest... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as it does to the preceding period of complex... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 2001 - 744 pages
...fundamental idea of the whole piece seems to be conveyed in its closing lines, delivered by Faulconbridge: 'This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.' For this truth to herself, this concord, can only be preserved when the state is pervaded by the ecclesiastical,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...Napoleonic scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the...wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...coming home of her revolted barons, that is, unity; and truth to herself. Here is our final speech: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (v. vii. 1 12) This is spoken by the Bastard, Faulconbridge, the bluff, humorous, critical, warm-hearted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our grefs. — e, It did not lie there when I went to bed. MARCUS naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeun . sail, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...becomes momentarily his old self again for the play's final lines, with its rousing patriotic appeal: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them! The Bastard, 'Brave soldier' (5.6.13), is surely meant to be in armour here, and resume his image as... | |
 | Lily Bess Campbell - Drama - 2005 - 368 pages
...the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes arc come home again, Come the three corners of the world...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Holinshed's chronicle of England records that at the trial of Edward Campion for treason in 1581 it... | |
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This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall... 
