 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.1 12-18) How is England to rest... | |
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 220 pages
...God's presence or absence is displaced. King John concludes with the Bastard's rousing clarion call: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (5.7.116-18) 34 need and a dramatic distraction from King John's ambivalence. Bellicose nationalism... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! 19 His conditional "if" is appropriate, pointing back as it does to the preceding period of complex... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...I have a kind soul that would give you thanks, And knows not how to do it but with tears. BASTARD. e to me agai naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeunt. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS... | |
 | Lars Magnusson - Commerce - 1997 - 264 pages
...native labour, and native energy, enterprise, and intellect, fair play and then in industry, as in arms: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Commerce is merely the handmaid of industry. The proper sphere of commerce is to distribute industrial... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...earliest royal funerary ceremonial Bifuni) at II. i lo-i I. monument in England. BASTARD trisingl 0, let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them! Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Exeunt no timeA] HOWE; time: F 117... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 2001 - 744 pages
...fundamental idea of the whole piece seems to be conveyed in its closing lines, delivered by Faulconbridge: 'This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.' For this truth to herself, this concord, can only be preserved when the state is pervaded by the ecclesiastical,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...famous by their birth. Ac. Add the famous passage in King John : — This England never did, nor ever shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when...corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's... | |
 | A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...national emergency: 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! At the same time, he understood, and brooded over, what was being lost. The ghost of Hamlet's father,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 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... | |
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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 proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home... 
