The Yale Shakespeare: The second part of King Henry the fourth, ed. by S.B. HemingwayYale University Press, 1921 |
Common terms and phrases
Arch archbishop Bard battle of Shrewsbury blood Bolingbroke brother Bullcalf captain Charles Kemble Colevile comes cousin crown Davy dead death Doll dost doth drink Earl Enter Exeunt Exit faith Fang father fear Folio follow give Grace grief hand Harry Hast hath haue head hear heart Henry IV Henry the Fourth hither Holinshed honour Host hostess Justice Shallow King Henry king's knave Lanc London look Lord Bardolph Lord Chief Justice majesty marry Master Shallow merry Mouldy Mowb Mowbray night noble Northumberland peace Pist Pistol play Poins pray prick Prince Harry Prince John Quarto rascal rogue Rumour Scene Shakespeare Shal Shrewsbury sick Silence Sir Dagonet Sir John Falstaff sonne speak spirit swaggerers sweet sword Tearsheet tell thee thine thou art tongue troth unto Warkworth Castle Warwick Westmoreland whoreson wilt word
Popular passages
Page 5 - Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 55 - Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 55 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Page 11 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 56 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 89 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 27 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly?
Page 99 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page 87 - It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 56 - ... fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!