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Page 34
Be friends , you English fools , be friends : O hard condition ! twin - born with
greatness , we have French quarrels enow , if you could tell Subject to the breath
of every fool , how to reckon , Whose sense no more can feel but his own
wringing !
Be friends , you English fools , be friends : O hard condition ! twin - born with
greatness , we have French quarrels enow , if you could tell Subject to the breath
of every fool , how to reckon , Whose sense no more can feel but his own
wringing !
Page 47
No ; ' tis hereafter to know , but now to tongues of the French council ; and they
should promise : do but now promise , Kate , you will en sooner persuade Harry
of England , than a general deavour for your French part of such a boy , and ...
No ; ' tis hereafter to know , but now to tongues of the French council ; and they
should promise : do but now promise , Kate , you will en sooner persuade Harry
of England , than a general deavour for your French part of such a boy , and ...
Page 58
He hears the French soldie expunged it , in his revision , without transposing it to
speak a foreign jargon , and replies by the first foreign this place . words that
occurred to him , being the Irish burden of - in his MOUTH ” — “ When
Shakespeare ...
He hears the French soldie expunged it , in his revision , without transposing it to
speak a foreign jargon , and replies by the first foreign this place . words that
occurred to him , being the Irish burden of - in his MOUTH ” — “ When
Shakespeare ...
Page 59
But that they refuse to see ; and although the French . The reply of Henry , before
an army ten times whole scene has been so amplified and improved , they as
great as his own , differed little from the terms he had • restore a line from the ...
But that they refuse to see ; and although the French . The reply of Henry , before
an army ten times whole scene has been so amplified and improved , they as
great as his own , differed little from the terms he had • restore a line from the ...
Page 10
Or shall we think the subtle - witted French Wounds will I lend the French instead
of eyes , Conjurors and sorcerers , that , afraid of him , To weep their intermissive
miseries . By magic verses have contrivd his end ? Win . He was a king , bless'd ...
Or shall we think the subtle - witted French Wounds will I lend the French instead
of eyes , Conjurors and sorcerers , that , afraid of him , To weep their intermissive
miseries . By magic verses have contrivd his end ? Win . He was a king , bless'd ...
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| Title | Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1 Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| Illustrated by | H. W. Hewet |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2007 |
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