Stories of Shakespeare's English History PlaysDodd, Mead, 1912 - 315 pages |
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accuses act opens adds ambassador announces appears assures Aumerle avers Bardolph begs behold Belarius bids Bolingbroke brother Buckingham Cade Cardinal Catesby claims Clarence Clifford Cloten companions courtiers Cranmer crown curtain next rises Cymbeline Dauphin dead death declares Duchess Duke Duke of Austria Duke of York Edward Elizabeth England English enters exclaims Falstaff father Faulconbridge fight forces France French Gloucester Gloucester's gone grimly hasten Hastings haughtily Hearing Henry IV Henry VI Henry's honour hopes hostess Hotspur Hubert husband Iachimo Imogen implores inquires join Katharine King Henry King's lady leave legate London lords Majesty Margaret messenger monarch Mortimer mutters Norfolk Northumberland orders palace Pisanio Poins Posthumus Prince John Prince of Wales prisoner promises prove quarrel Queen rebels refuses Reignier rejoins reminds reply Richard royal Salisbury scene is played slain Somerset soon sorrow Suffolk summons Talbot throne tidings traitor turn uncle urges vowing Warwick whereupon wife Winchester wishes Wolsey wonders York
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Page 157 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 306 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 280 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 169 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 306 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last,) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Page 280 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Page 44 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 305 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 204 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?
Page 82 - ... off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offence a skill; Redeeming time when men think least I will [Exit.