The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Part 1D.C. Heath, 1904 - 178 pages |
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... occurs in the Authorized Version of the Bible , is rarely used by Shakespeare . master , owner . 21. impressed , enlisted . See Glossary . 22. levy . This use of lety in the sense of conduct , or rather with the docbie meaning of raise ...
... occurs in the Authorized Version of the Bible , is rarely used by Shakespeare . master , owner . 21. impressed , enlisted . See Glossary . 22. levy . This use of lety in the sense of conduct , or rather with the docbie meaning of raise ...
Page 95
... occurs in the description of the catchpole in A Comedy of Errors , iv . 2. 32 : " A devil in an everlasting garment has him , A wolf ; nay worse , a fellow all in buff " . 42. quiddities , frivolous distinctions . The word quiddity ...
... occurs in the description of the catchpole in A Comedy of Errors , iv . 2. 32 : " A devil in an everlasting garment has him , A wolf ; nay worse , a fellow all in buff " . 42. quiddities , frivolous distinctions . The word quiddity ...
Page 103
... quick to grasp a plan of action . 194. If he or swim . If such a man fall into the current it is all over with him unless he can swim . The saying was proverbial , and something very like it occurs Scene 3 ] 103 NOTES.
... quick to grasp a plan of action . 194. If he or swim . If such a man fall into the current it is all over with him unless he can swim . The saying was proverbial , and something very like it occurs Scene 3 ] 103 NOTES.
Page 104
William Shakespeare Frederic William Moorman. saying was proverbial , and something very like it occurs in Chaucer's Knight's Tale : “ Ne reccheth never , wher I synke or fleete " . 195-197 . Send danger ... grapple . Though a whole ...
William Shakespeare Frederic William Moorman. saying was proverbial , and something very like it occurs in Chaucer's Knight's Tale : “ Ne reccheth never , wher I synke or fleete " . 195-197 . Send danger ... grapple . Though a whole ...
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... occurs again in Winter's Tale , i 2. 163 : Mamillius . No , my lord , I'll fight . Leontes . You will ! Why , happy man be his dole . 81. caterpillars , devourers of substance . Cf. Richard II , ii . 3. 166 , where Richard's favourites ...
... occurs again in Winter's Tale , i 2. 163 : Mamillius . No , my lord , I'll fight . Leontes . You will ! Why , happy man be his dole . 81. caterpillars , devourers of substance . Cf. Richard II , ii . 3. 166 , where Richard's favourites ...
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Page 71 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Page 36 - There is a thing, Harry, which thou hast often heard of and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth the company thou keepest...
Page 29 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife " Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work.
Page 4 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Page 9 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 60 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 33 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Page 10 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 15 - To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So he, that doth redeem her thence, might wear, Without corrival, all her dignities : But out upon this half-faced fellowship ! War.
Page 9 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.