 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...reck'ning'. When the prayer continues, its topic shifts and also does not: 'Not today, О Lord, / О not today, think not upon the fault / My father made in compassing the crown' (289-9i). The new topic, Lancastrian guilt, maintains and makes overt the shadow topic of the first... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - Literary Collections - 2004 - 310 pages
...The sense of reck'ning'. When the prayer continues, its topic shifts and also does not: 'Not today, O Lord, / O not today, think not upon the fault / My father made in compassing the crown' (189-91). The new topic, I,ancasttian guilt, mainrains and makes overt the shadow topic of the first... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...is bequeathed to his son. On the morning of the battle at Agincourt, Henry V prays: "Not to-day, O Lord,/ O not today, think not upon the fault/ My father made in compassing the crown!" An awareness of the brevity of life, indebted to the past yet made up of fleeting moments that vanish... | |
 | W. G. Jordan - History - 2005 - 349 pages
...The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them ! Not to-day, O Lord 1 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 bestowed more contrite tears Than from it issued... | |
 | W. G. Jordan - History - 2005 - 349 pages
...The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them ! Not to-day, O Lord 1 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 bestowed more contrite tears Than from it issued... | |
 | Mario von der Ruhr - Religion - 2006 - 188 pages
...them now The sense of reck'ning, if th' 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! 1 Richard's body have interred new; And on it have bestowed more contrite tears Than from it issued forced... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...Agincourt, Henry V prays to God, at this historic juncture, to forget the guilt of his family: Not to-day, O Lord! O not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown! (Henry V, 4.1. 298-300) 21 And he enumerates all of the atonement rituals, which should effect God's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...them now The sense of reckoning, if th'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! 1 Richard's body have interred new; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears Than from it issued forced... | |
 | John D. Cox - Drama - 2007 - 368 pages
...them now The sense of reckoning, ere th' opposed numbers Pluck their hearts from them. Not today, O Lord, O, not today, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown! 1 Richard's body have interred new, And on it have bestowed more contrite tears Than from it issued forced... | |
 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 337 pages
...House of Lancaster by destroying Henry and his army on the field of battle: Not to-day, O Lord, Oh, not to-day, think not upon the fault My father made in compassing the crown! He describes the penance he has already paid in lieu of his father: I Richard's body have interred... | |
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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... 
