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ambition Anne Boleyn Archbishop Archbishop Arundel battle Beaufort Bishop Stubbs Bolingbroke brother Buckingham Cade Cardinal character Chronicle Plays Church claim Clarence comedy critical Crown death dramatic Duke dynastic Earl earlier play ecclesiastical Edward Edward IV Elizabethan England English history fact Falstaff father fifteenth France French Gaunt Glendower Gloucester hand hath Henry IV Henry of Lancaster Henry VI Henry VIII Henry's historian Holinshed Hotspur House House of Lancaster humour Katharine King Henry King John King Richard King's Knight lack Lancastrian land less Lollards lord marriage ment moral murder national unity never noble Norfolk numbers Parliament patriotic peace Percy period political Pope popular Prince Hal Princess Queen Elizabeth Queen Margaret question reason reign Richard II Richard of Bordeaux scene Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's sixteenth century speare spirit success Suffolk supreme thee thou throne true truth usurpation victory Warwick whole wholly Wolsey Wolsey's Yorkist
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Page 158 - O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear ; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them ! — Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown...
Page 23 - Her own shall bless her: Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Page 134 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 139 - Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience...
Page 195 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny : the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony, to drink small beer.
Page 78 - Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out - I die pronouncing it Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
Page 48 - John. Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet : But thou shalt have ; and creep time ne'er so slow, Yet it shall come, for me to do thee good. I had a thing to say, — But let it go : The sun is in the heaven ; and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound one unto the drowsy race of night...
Page 28 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 153 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 206 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!