 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. 1 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 St. George !)... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...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...slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot : Follow your spirit ; and, upon this charge, Cry, God for Harry, England and St. George ! XVIII. —... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 pages
...which occurs more than once in Shakspeare, and among others in Act III. Scene I. of the same play: " I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start." t I do not remember any authority for this word. Pet. Why, a boy was beaten op the tail with a leathern... | |
 | Richard Lawrence (veterinary surgeon.) - 1816 - 550 pages
...It bore its present appellation in Queen Elizabeth's day, as it is mentioned by Shakspeare : — " I see you stand, like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start — The game's on foot." Various have been the opinions upon the difference of speed between a well-bred greyhound... | |
 | 1818 - 422 pages
...That you are worth yonr 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...slips, " Straining upon the start. The game's a-foot — " Follow your spirit ; and, upon this charge, " Cry, " Benett for ever," England and St. George.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...Have, in these parts, from morn till even' fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument'. 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 St George' ! Shakespeare.... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath got noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds...in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's a foot ; Follow your spirit ; and, upon this charge, Cry, God for Harry, England, and St. George ?... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...which I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eves. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the s.tart. The game's aloot: Follow your spirit ; and, upon this charge, Qry, God for Harry, England and St, George ! 382... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...STEEVENS. 8 — argument.] Is matter, or subject. JOHNSON. 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 slips9 , Straining upon the start1. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...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...slips, * Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt.... | |
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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... 
