 | Margaret Gaskin - 2006 - 472 pages
...jewel": Richard II. Shakespeare was a favorite oracle now, with the littleknown King John much plundered: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Colin Perry read this in an American magazine: Perry, p. 201; Come The Three Corners by Sir Harry Britain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 356 pages
...rise."' BASTARD 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...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. 120 Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall... | |
 | Sandra Clark - 2007 - 465 pages
...the Bastard Falconbridge at the end of Shakespeare's King John (?1596) represents one such response: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. . . . Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (5.7.112-14, 117-18) Falconbridge,... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled." And then, there is King John: "This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself .... Come three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them; nought shall make us rue, If... | |
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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... 
