King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part I-II |
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-how high thy glory towers , When the rich blood of kings is fet on fire ! Oh , how doth death line his dead chaps with fteel ; The fwords of foldiers are his teeth , his phangs ; And now he feafts , 9 mouthing the flesh of men In ...
-how high thy glory towers , When the rich blood of kings is fet on fire ! Oh , how doth death line his dead chaps with fteel ; The fwords of foldiers are his teeth , his phangs ; And now he feafts , 9 mouthing the flesh of men In ...
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... and make her rich In titles , honours , and promotions , As fhe in beauty , education , blood , Holds hand with any princefs of the world . K. Phil . What fay'it thou , boy ? look in the lady's face . eye I find Lewis .
... and make her rich In titles , honours , and promotions , As fhe in beauty , education , blood , Holds hand with any princefs of the world . K. Phil . What fay'it thou , boy ? look in the lady's face . eye I find Lewis .
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We will heal up all , For we'll create young Arthur duke of Bretagne , And earl of Richmond ; and this rich fair town We make him lord of . Call the lady Conftance ; Some speedy meffenger bid her repair To our folemnity : I truft ...
We will heal up all , For we'll create young Arthur duke of Bretagne , And earl of Richmond ; and this rich fair town We make him lord of . Call the lady Conftance ; Some speedy meffenger bid her repair To our folemnity : I truft ...
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Well , while I am a beggar , I will rail ; And fay , there is no fin but to be rich : And being rich , my virtue then shall be , To fay , there is no vice , but beggary . Since kings break faith upon commodity , Gain be my lord ; for I ...
Well , while I am a beggar , I will rail ; And fay , there is no fin but to be rich : And being rich , my virtue then shall be , To fay , there is no vice , but beggary . Since kings break faith upon commodity , Gain be my lord ; for I ...
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Therefore to be poffefs'd with double pomp , 4 To guard a title that was rich before , To gild refined gold , to paint the lily , To throw a perfume on the violet , To fimooth the ice , or add another hue Unto the rainbow , or with ...
Therefore to be poffefs'd with double pomp , 4 To guard a title that was rich before , To gild refined gold , to paint the lily , To throw a perfume on the violet , To fimooth the ice , or add another hue Unto the rainbow , or with ...
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Page 76 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 247 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! Wor.
Page 202 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 140 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds : That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 67 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 212 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Page 427 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 424 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 436 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.
Page 495 - He is familiar with the prince only as an agent of vice ; but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance to the duke of Lancaster. Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes...
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| Title | King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part I-II Volume 5 of The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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