 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 380 pages
...on the Earl of Essex's approaching return to the city from the obstinately disputed war in Ireland. Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ? The story of the play Shakespeare derived from Holinshed's chronicle, and in the main current of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 248 pages
...case of Henry V. In Date. the Prologue to the fifth act occur the following lines: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! The general here referred to was the Earl of Essex, who left for Ireland on April 15, 1599, and returned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 408 pages
...expos'd them." The only internal evidence as to the date of the writing occurs in the Chorus to Act V: "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him !" This passage undoubtedly refers to the Earl of Essex, who set forth on his expedition against the... | |
 | John Tucker Murray - 1910 - 402 pages
...plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...much more (and much more cause) Did they this Harry.' Moreover, if this play were the first one at the Globe, how appropriate would be those lines of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 206 pages
...Caesar in ; As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, 80 As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...cause, Did they this Harry. Now in London place him; 35 As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the King of England's stay at home, — The Emperor's... | |
 | 1913 - 126 pages
...and doubtless the "wooden O" of the new theatre resounded with applause in response to the words : "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As,...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him !" 60 year before and had consoled himself as best he could by "going to plays every day," was with... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1916 - 822 pages
...the people of \^n{^n of London when he should return after 'broach- 1601. ing' rebellion in Ireland. Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To weleome him ! (Act v. Chorus, ll. 30-4.) But Shakespeare's prognostication was woefully belied. Essex's... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1917 - 320 pages
...reference to the Earl of Essex which is one of the few references Shakespeare made to his contemporaries. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him!" The first edition of Shakespeare's "Henry V" appeared in 1600 and it was reprinted twice before the... | |
 | Maurice Jonas - 1918 - 460 pages
...The Mayor and all his brethren in best sort Like the senators of the antique Rome. With the plebians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their...gracious empress, As in good time he may from Ireland come, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1918 - 332 pages
...rate completed, in 1599, as appears from this passage in the Prologue to Act V : " As, by a lesser but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " In these lines there is admittedly a clear reference to the expedition of the Earl of Essex to... | |
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Like to the senators of th' antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in good time he may) from... 
