The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907 |
From inside the book
Page 29
... child . ' Const . Do , child , go to it grandam , child ; Arth . Give grandam kingdom , and it grandam will Give it a plum , a cherry , and a fig : There's a good grandam . 155 160 Good my mother , peace ! I would that I were low laid ...
... child . ' Const . Do , child , go to it grandam , child ; Arth . Give grandam kingdom , and it grandam will Give it a plum , a cherry , and a fig : There's a good grandam . 155 160 Good my mother , peace ! I would that I were low laid ...
Page 30
... child ; The canon of the law is laid on him , Being but the second generation Removed from thy sin - conceiving womb . K. John . Bedlam , have done . Const . I have but this to say , That he is not only plagued for her sin , 175 180 But ...
... child ; The canon of the law is laid on him , Being but the second generation Removed from thy sin - conceiving womb . K. John . Bedlam , have done . Const . I have but this to say , That he is not only plagued for her sin , 175 180 But ...
Page 31
... child , And all for her ; a plague upon her ! Eli . Thou unadvised scold , I can produce A will that bars the title of thy son . Const . Ay , who doubts that ? a will ! a wicked will ; A woman's will ; a canker'd grandam's will ! 190 K ...
... child , And all for her ; a plague upon her ! Eli . Thou unadvised scold , I can produce A will that bars the title of thy son . Const . Ay , who doubts that ? a will ! a wicked will ; A woman's will ; a canker'd grandam's will ! 190 K ...
Page 33
... child Religiously provokes . Be pleased then To pay that duty which you truly owe To him that owes it , namely this young prince : And then our arms , like to a muzzled bear , 234. Crave ] Pope ; Craves Ff . 229. They shoot smoke ] Com ...
... child Religiously provokes . Be pleased then To pay that duty which you truly owe To him that owes it , namely this young prince : And then our arms , like to a muzzled bear , 234. Crave ] Pope ; Craves Ff . 229. They shoot smoke ] Com ...
Page 34
... children , wives and you in peace . But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer , ' Tis not the roundure of your old - faced walls Can hide you from our messengers of war , Though all the English and their discipline Were harbour'd in ...
... children , wives and you in peace . But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer , ' Tis not the roundure of your old - faced walls Can hide you from our messengers of war , Though all the English and their discipline Were harbour'd in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Angiers arms Arth Arthur Aust Bast Bastard Blanch blood brabbler breath Capell Collier Compare Richard conj conjecture Const Constance Cotgrave curse Dauphin death dost doth Dyce Elinor Elizabethan English emendation England Exeunt fair faith father Faulconbridge fear Fleay Folios read France French Geffrey's give grief hand Hanmer hath hear heaven Henry Henry IV Holinshed holy honour Hubert Hubert de Burgh infra JAMES GURNEY Julius Cæsar King John Kynge Johan Lady land Lewis lion lord majesty Malone meaning Melun mother night noble Pand Pandulph pare passage peace Philip play Pope prince Ralph Roister Doister Richard II Rowe Salisbury SCENE seems Shake Shakespeare shame Sir Robert soul speak spirit Steevens supra Swinstead thee Theobald thine eye thou hast tongue Troublesome Raigne Twelfth Night unto Vaughan suggests word ΙΟ
Popular passages
Page 81 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 95 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 104 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Page 88 - To be more prince) as may be. You are sad. Hub. Indeed, I have been merrier. Arth. Mercy on me! Methinks, nobody should be sad but I : Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness. By my Christendom, So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long...
Page 90 - And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you : But you at your sick service had a prince. Nay, you may think my love was crafty love, And call it cunning : do, an if you will. If Heaven be pleased that you must use me ill, Why, then you must.
Page 82 - There's nothing in this world, can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught, but shame and bitterness.
Page 105 - 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 145 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.