That private men enjoy? And what have kings, that privates have not too What is the soul of adoration?* Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, Think'st thou the fiery fever will With titles blown from adulation? go out Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread; But, like a lacky, from the rise to set, Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night *"What is the real worth and intrinsic value of adoration?" Farced is stuffed. The tumid puffy tides with which a king's name is introduced Sleeps in Elysium; next day, after dawn, DESCRIPTION OF THE MISERABLE ENGLISH ARMY. STATE ОР THE Yon island's carrions, desperate of their bones, Ill-favour'dly become the morning field: Their ragged curtains† poorly are let loose, And our air shakes them passing scornfully. Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host, And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. Their horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hand: and the poor jades Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips; The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes, And in their pale dull mouths the gimmalt bit Lies foul with chew'd grass still and motionless; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. KING HENRY'S SPEECH BEFORE THE BATTLE OF AGIN COURT. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day: Then shall our names, Familiar in their mouths as household words, Harry the king, Bedford, and Exeter, * The sun. † Colours. + Ring. Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster,- DESCRIPTION OF THE DUKE OF YORK'S He smil❜d me in the face, raught* me his hand, And, with a feeble gripe, says,-Dear my lord, Commend my service to my sovereign. So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his lips; The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd; But all my mother came into mine eyes, ACT V. THE MISERIES OF WAR. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, *Reached. + Ploughshare. To deracinate is to force up the roots. KING HENRY VI. PART I. ACT I. GLORY. GLORY is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought ACT V. MARRIAGE. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship." For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, 4440 KING HENRY VI. PART II. ACT I. A RESOLVED AND AMBITIOUS WOMAN. FOLLOW I must, I cannot go before, While Gloster bears this base and humble mind Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks, And smooth my way upon their headless necks: And, being a woman, I will not be slack To play my part in fortune's pageant. ** By the discretional agency of another ACT II. GOD'S GOODNESS EVER TO BE REMEMBERED. Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. THE DUCHESS OF GLOSTER'S REMONSTRANCE TO HER For, whilst I think I am thy married wife, ACT III. SILENT RESENTMENT DEEPEST. Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason. A GUILTY COUNTENANCE. Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world. DESCRIPTION OF A MURDERED PERSON. See, how the blood is settled in his face! Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,‡ Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, Being all descended to the labouring heart; Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy, Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth To blush and beautify the cheek again. * Wrapped up in disgrace; alluding to the sheet of penance. + Deep-fetched. A body become inanimate in the common course of nature; to which violence has not brought a timeless end |