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... sovereign , and you peers , That owe yourselves , your lives , and services To this imperial throne . There is no bar To make against your highness ' claim to France But this , which they produce from Pharamond , In terram Salicam ...
... sovereign , and you peers , That owe yourselves , your lives , and services To this imperial throne . There is no bar To make against your highness ' claim to France But this , which they produce from Pharamond , In terram Salicam ...
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... sovereign ! For in the book of Numbers is it writ : ' When the man dies , let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter . ' Gracious lord , Stand for your own ; unwind your bloody flag ; Look back into your mighty ancestors : Go , my ...
... sovereign ! For in the book of Numbers is it writ : ' When the man dies , let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter . ' Gracious lord , Stand for your own ; unwind your bloody flag ; Look back into your mighty ancestors : Go , my ...
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... sovereign , Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers . K. Hen . We do not mean the coursing snatchers only , But fear the main intendment of the Scot , Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us ...
... sovereign , Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers . K. Hen . We do not mean the coursing snatchers only , But fear the main intendment of the Scot , Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us ...
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... sovereign's life to death and treachery ! Trumpets sound . Enter King Henry , Scroop , CAMBRIDGE , GREY , Lords , and Attendants . K. Hen . Now sits the wind fair , and we will aboard . My Lord of Cambridge , and my kind lord of Masham ...
... sovereign's life to death and treachery ! Trumpets sound . Enter King Henry , Scroop , CAMBRIDGE , GREY , Lords , and Attendants . K. Hen . Now sits the wind fair , and we will aboard . My Lord of Cambridge , and my kind lord of Masham ...
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... sovereign , lest example Breed , by his sufferance , more of such a kind . K. Hen . O ! let us yet be merciful . Cam . So may your highness , and yet punish too . Grey . Sir , You show great mercy , if you give him life After the taste ...
... sovereign , lest example Breed , by his sufferance , more of such a kind . K. Hen . O ! let us yet be merciful . Cam . So may your highness , and yet punish too . Grey . Sir , You show great mercy , if you give him life After the taste ...
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Page 72 - And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
Page 72 - But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day : then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
Page 3 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 72 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition : And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's...
Page 71 - s he that wishes so ? My cousin Westmoreland ? No, my fair cousin. If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires; But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a...
Page 36 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 36 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide ; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height...
Page 117 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
Page 67 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread...