 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with tear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if th'opposed his mere enemy, To feed my means. Here is a letter,...friend, And every word in ha gaping wound, Issuing lif Richard's body have interred new; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears Than from it issued forced... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 260 pages
...crooked ways 1 I met this crown' (IV.5. 184-6) - and even by Hal himself in Henry V: 'Not today, O Lord, | O not today, think not upon the fault | My father made in compassing the crown!' (IV. 1.285-7). This is not just the opposition of right and wrong. Henry's faults were very serious... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - Drama - 1996 - 408 pages
...night as he prays that the fault of his usurping father might finally be left behind ("Not to-day, O Lord, / O, not to-day, think not upon the fault / My father made in compassing the crown," IV.i.292-94).43 The pervasive imagery of faults in Henry V, together with its reminders of preposterous... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...prayer that is more a prayer of confession and repentance than a request for victory: Not today, O Lord, O, not today, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown! I Richard's body have interred new, And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears Than from it issu'd... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...from the guilty responsibility which also descended to him from his father: Not today, O Lord, Oh. not today, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown! (IV. 1.285-7) His desperation can be judged by the use of three negatives ('not today', 'Oh, not today',... | |
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Not to-day, O Lord, O, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown ! I Richard's body have interred new ; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have... 
