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" 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... "
King Henry the Fourth: A Historical Play - Page 8
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay...than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;8 And, like bright metal on a sullen9 ground. My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay...word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ;8 And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay...than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;8 And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...come, they wish'd-for come,2 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour 1 throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how...than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;3 would come too late if the Prince was not to receive them till the night after the day of the...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 494 pages
...they wUh'd-for come, . . Anil nothing pleaseth hut rare accidents. So, wbeu tills loose behaviour 1 throw off, ' :'And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, 1 By so much shall 1 falsify men's hopes; And, like bright me(al ou a sullen ground, My reformation,...
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The Rising Sun,: A Serio-comic Satiric Romance, Volume 1

Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 pages
...work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come. And nothing pleaseth but fair accidents : . So when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promis'd; By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's Iiopes ; And, like...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 398 pages
...Hen. I know you all, and will awhile uphold Tiie unyok'd humour of your idleness: Vet herein will 1 imitate the sun ; Who doth permit the base contagious...how much better than my word I am, By so much shall 1 falsify men's hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 pages
...come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour, 1 throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how...word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; 9 (7) For tttexnnce is an expression in daily use amongst the common people in Suffolk, to signify...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 534 pages
...wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw oft, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better...falsify men's hopes* ; And, like bright metal on a sulleut ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fanlt, Shall show more goodly, and attract more...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...to work ; But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay...word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; ' (7) Fa* the notice^ is an expression in daily use amongst the common people in Suffolk, to signify...
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