Shakespeare's King Henry iv. part 1, with explanatory and illustr. notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter, Volume 1 |
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... brother Thomas , earl of Worcester , and his son , the lord Henry Percy , surnamed Hotspur , which were to King Henry , in the beginning of his reign , both faithful friends and earnest aiders , began now to envy his wealth and felicity ...
... brother Thomas , earl of Worcester , and his son , the lord Henry Percy , surnamed Hotspur , which were to King Henry , in the beginning of his reign , both faithful friends and earnest aiders , began now to envy his wealth and felicity ...
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... brother to the lord Scroope whom King Henry had caused to be beheaded at Bristow . These articles being showed to several noblemen , many of them did not only promise to the Percies aid and succour by words , but also by their writings ...
... brother to the lord Scroope whom King Henry had caused to be beheaded at Bristow . These articles being showed to several noblemen , many of them did not only promise to the Percies aid and succour by words , but also by their writings ...
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... brother's blood . ' Gen. iv . 11. In the old play , The Troublesome Raigne of John ( 1591 ) , on which Shakspeare founded his K. John , we have- All the blood yspilt on either part , Closing the crannies of the thirsty earth . ' Of ...
... brother's blood . ' Gen. iv . 11. In the old play , The Troublesome Raigne of John ( 1591 ) , on which Shakspeare founded his K. John , we have- All the blood yspilt on either part , Closing the crannies of the thirsty earth . ' Of ...
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... brother of Harry Hotspur's wife , but not really Earl of March as Shakspeare , following Holinshed , has supposed . He was second son of Edmund Mortimer third Earl of March , and uncle to Edmund Mortimer fifth Earl of March , who was at ...
... brother of Harry Hotspur's wife , but not really Earl of March as Shakspeare , following Holinshed , has supposed . He was second son of Edmund Mortimer third Earl of March , and uncle to Edmund Mortimer fifth Earl of March , who was at ...
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... brother to King Robert III . 2 Worcester . ] Thomas Percy , Earl of Worcester , brother of the Earl of Northumberland . This was the steward of Richard II.'s household who broke his staff of office ' when his brother was proclaimed ...
... brother to King Robert III . 2 Worcester . ] Thomas Percy , Earl of Worcester , brother of the Earl of Northumberland . This was the steward of Richard II.'s household who broke his staff of office ' when his brother was proclaimed ...
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Page 114 - tis no matter ; 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 that word, Honour ? Air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 17 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will awhile 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...
Page 26 - If he fall in, good night ! or sink or swim : Send danger from the east unto the west, So honour cross it from the north to south, And let them grapple : O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare ! North.
Page 18 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 21 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 45 - I know you wise ; but yet no further wise, Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are; But yet a woman : and for secrecy, No lady closer : for I well believe, Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know 4 ; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate!
Page 21 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark!
Page 97 - 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 64 - Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Page 54 - No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.