Shakespeare's History of King Henry the FifthHarper & brothers, 1892 - 191 pages |
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Agincourt Alice aunchient Bardolph battle BISHOP OF ELY blood brother Burgundy Cambridge Canterbury Captain Chorus Coll conscience constable of France crown Cymb daie Dauphin didst doth duke of Burgognie Duke of Exeter DUKES OF BERRI Earl of Cambridge earle emendation English Englishmen enimies Enter KING HENRY Erpingham Exeunt Exit eyes fair father Fluellen folio reading follows French French King French Soldier gentle give Gloucester glove goot Gower grace hand Harfleur hath heart herald Holinshed honour Hostess Hugh Capet John Johnson Kate Katherine King Henry king of England ladie leek liege look Lord Scroop Macb Macmorris majesty Malone mercy Montjoy never night noble Orleans Pistol play pridge princes prol quarto Rambures ransom Rich Salique SCENE Schmidt soul Steevens quotes sword tell thee thine Thomas Creede thou thought treason unto valiant victorie Westmoreland Williams withal word
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Page 24 - 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 59 - 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. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!
Page 34 - Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale The lazy yawning drone.
Page 95 - 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 ' To-morrow is Saint Crispian : ' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say ' These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 94 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 58 - Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. The offer likes not; and the nimble gunner With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, Alarum, and chambers go off.
Page 95 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers : For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother : be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition * : And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Page 33 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 90 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave ; Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, GetS him tO rest, cramm'd with distressful bread ; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell ; i'ii.
Page 95 - 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...