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... English monarchs . As a conqueror he was stern and ambitious , but not cruel , and won over his enemies by tact and clemency . The splendid victory at Agincourt embalmed his name and memory , and for generations after his death his mag ...
... English monarchs . As a conqueror he was stern and ambitious , but not cruel , and won over his enemies by tact and clemency . The splendid victory at Agincourt embalmed his name and memory , and for generations after his death his mag ...
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... English monarch and Katharine of Valois , which were solemnised at Troyes ( in 1420 ) with unwonted splendour . The comic business of the drama , besides representing Henry as a lover ( where he is seen to least advantage ) , and giving ...
... English monarch and Katharine of Valois , which were solemnised at Troyes ( in 1420 ) with unwonted splendour . The comic business of the drama , besides representing Henry as a lover ( where he is seen to least advantage ) , and giving ...
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... English , that could entertain 90 35 95 100 105 110 With half their forces the full pride of France ; And let another half stand laughing by , All out of work , and cold for action ! 115 Ely . Awake remembrance of these valiant dead ...
... English , that could entertain 90 35 95 100 105 110 With half their forces the full pride of France ; And let another half stand laughing by , All out of work , and cold for action ! 115 Ely . Awake remembrance of these valiant dead ...
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... English Mercuries . For now sits Expectation in the air ; And hides a sword , from hilts unto the point , With crowns imperial , crowns , and coronets , Promis'd to Harry and his followers . The French , advis'd by good intelligence Of ...
... English Mercuries . For now sits Expectation in the air ; And hides a sword , from hilts unto the point , With crowns imperial , crowns , and coronets , Promis'd to Harry and his followers . The French , advis'd by good intelligence Of ...
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William Shakespeare. Seek to divert the English purposes . 15 O England ! model to thy inward greatness , Like little body with a mighty heart , What mightst thou do , that honour would thee do , Were all thy children kind and natural ...
William Shakespeare. Seek to divert the English purposes . 15 O England ! model to thy inward greatness , Like little body with a mighty heart , What mightst thou do , that honour would thee do , Were all thy children kind and natural ...
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Agincourt Alarums Alençon Alice Bard Bardolph Bates battle behold blood brother Cant Captain Chorus constable Constable of France cousin crown dative dauphin dear death doth Duke Duke of Burgundy dukedoms Earl Earl of Cambridge England English Enter KING HENRY Ermengare Exeter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fear Fluellen Follow France French friends give GLOSTER glove goot Gower grace Hamlet Harfleur Harry hath heart Henry IV herald Holinshed honour Host humour Julius Cæsar Kate Kath Katharine king's knight leek liege look Lord Scroop Macbeth Macedon Macmorris majesty meaning Merchant of Venice mercy mighty mock MONTJOY never noble orld Pist Pistol play pray pridge princes prol PROLOGUE ransom Salique SCENE Shakespeare soldier soul speak swear sweet sword tell thee thine treason unto valiant verb wear word
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Page 31 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even 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 63 - ... of the king's laws in now the king's quarrel : where they feared the death, they have borne life away ; and where they would be safe, they perish : then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 39 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture : let us swear That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not, For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 78 - Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth : it is called Wye at Monmouth ; but it is out of my prains, what is the name of the other river : but 'tis all one ; 'tis so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
Page 71 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say " Tomorrow is Saint Crispian " : Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say " These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 128 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 71 - And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world But we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition.
Page 39 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head, Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it, As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 71 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall...
Page 31 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet.