 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1918 - 320 pages
...as appears from this passage in the Prologue to Act V : " As, by a lesser but loving likelihood, 133 Were now the general of our gracious Empress As in...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... | |
 | George Wyndham - 1919 - 502 pages
...the chorus to the Fifth Act of his Henry V. a prophetic picture of their victorious return : — ' Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! ' The play was produced in the spring of that year, but its prophecy went unfulfilled. Essex failed... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1920 - 202 pages
...and James by "The Globe" players. Shakespeare indulged in the dangerous practice of prophecy : — Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! This allusion to Essex was dragged in by the neck. Essex came back, discredited, to become himself... | |
 | Basil Brown - 1921 - 398 pages
...their heels. Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, 5 Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As in...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him!" . Little did Shakespeare dream that Essex would one day put the city to that test wherein he found... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1922 - 280 pages
...positing of the 1599 date, which is always grounded on these lines of the ChorusPrologue to Act v. : Were now the General of our gracious Empress, As in...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! The reference is almost certainly to Essex,1 who set out on his expedition to Ireland in April, 1599,... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 pages
...Poem of Conquest. One clue to the date of King Henry the Fifth is in the Prologue to the fifth Act : Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! Though there was constant fighting in Ireland it seems safe to conclude that this general was Essex,... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1923 - 262 pages
...chorus, after describing the glorious victory at Agincourt, expresses the uncertainty of the present. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him!" Another Elizabethan poet, Edmund Spenser, had taken part in these Irish wars and had very decided opinions... | |
 | Laura Hanes Cadwallader - 1923 - 162 pages
...pp. 88-89. 57 National Manuscripts of Ireland (London, 1884), p. 245. CHAPTER IV THE FALL OP ESSEX "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! ' ' SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, Prologue How different was Essex's home-coming from that predicted by Shakespeare... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1923 - 256 pages
...chorus, after describing the glorious victory at Agincourt, expresses the uncertainty of the present. "Were now the general of our gracious Empress (As...sword, How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome himl" Another Elizabethan poet, Edmund Spenser, had taken part in these Irish wars and had very decided... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1979 - 288 pages
...victory of Agincourt - 'Behold . . . how London doth pour out her citizens' — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! Dover Wilson thought that Henry V was written as a direct encouragement to Essex 'to become that kind... | |
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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... 
