History of King Henry the Fourth, Part 2Harper & Brothers, 1886 |
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Archbishop beseech blood brother Bullcalf called captain Chief-Justice Clarence Clarke remarks Colevile Coll cousin crown Davy dead death Doll doth earl marshall earl of Westmoreland early eds edition Enter Exeunt faith father fear folio follow friends give Gloucester grace hand Harry Hastings hath heart Henry IV Holinshed honour Hostess humour Jerusalem Chamber Johnson Julius Cæsar justice King Henry king's knight London look Lord Bardolph Lord Hastings Macb majesty Malone Master Shallow Master Silence merry mind Mouldy Mowbray noble Northumberland peace Pistol play Poins pray Prince John quarto quarto reading rascal Rich rogue Rolfe Rolfe's royal says SCENE Schmidt Shakespeare sick Sir Dagonet Sir John Falstaff sleep speak speech spirit Steevens quotes swaggering sweet sword tell thee thine thing thou art tion unto Warb Warwick whoreson William Gascoigne wilt word
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Page 107 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 80 - God! that one might read the book of 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! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 25 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep!— O 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 / Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great...
Page 80 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure'd. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 106 - A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. 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,8 full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes ; which delivered o'er to the voice, (the tongue,) which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 49 - I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse : borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable...
Page 38 - 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 78 - 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...
Page 88 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.
Page 50 - When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model ; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection...