 | George Wilson Knight - 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 - 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... | |
 | Alan Barcan - 2002 - 420 pages
...in September 1938, Holme began his lecture by quoting Shakespeare and virtually leaving it at that: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. 97 Three major influences were brewing a new radicalism. The first was the changing character of the... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 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... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...the kingdom to dangers from without as well as from within. In King John one of the noblemen says, This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. (John V 7 112-14) The patterns that apply to the stability of an outward kingdom pertain also to the... | |
 | John Sugden - 2004 - 984 pages
...its proud boast: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror . . . Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Most lovingly of all did Nelson misquote the words Shakespeare gave his hero Henry V before the battle... | |
 | Deanne Williams - 2004 - 308 pages
...embodies a principle of resistance that is codified in nationalistic terms at the play's conclusion: This England never did. nor never shall. Lie at the...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. (5.7.112-14). Patriotic effusions such as these have inspired critics to dub the Bastard "an English... | |
 | Jeffrey Kahan - 2004 - 392 pages
...Rowe'sJane Shore (1.2.126). 5.1.10-14 O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts — (Henry V, IV.i.289) This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. (King John, V.vii.l 12-14) Francklin's "Great God of armies" is clearly taken from Henry V; his sentiment... | |
 | Lily Bess Campbell - 2005 - 368 pages
...THE TROUBLESOME REIGN OF KING JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S King John closes with _Jits most often quoted words: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes arc come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 pages
...plot, this earth, this realm, this England. The other, shorter but no less emphatic, is in King John: This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. . . These passages owe as much to the time when they were written as to their position within the action... | |
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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... 
