King Richard the Second: The First Quarto, 1597

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C. Praetorius, 1888 - 75 pages

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Page 19 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 59 - Peace shall go sleepe with turks and Infidels, And in this seat of peace, tumultuous warres Shall kin with kin, and kinde with kind confound...
Page 36 - ... presence1 makes vs rich, most noble Lord. Wil. And far surmounts our labour to attaine it. Bui. Euermore thanke's the exchequer of the poore. Which till my infant fortune comes to yeares, Stands for my bounty. (II.iii.60-7) York's wordy rejection of his nephew's courtesies — grace me no grace, nor vnckle me no vnckle, I am no traitors Vnckle, and that word Grace In an vngratious mouth is but prophane (87-9) — implies what Henry 7F" confirms : that Bolingbroke's words are in fact as blank...
Page 75 - From your o wnc mouth my Lo. did I this deed . King. They loue not poifon that do...
Page 66 - If any plague hang ouervstis he: ' 1 would to God my Lordes he might be found: Inquire at London...

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