 Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Page 2121823Full view - About this book
 | John Adams - Africa, West - 1823 - 292 pages
...give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ? And, in the calmest and the stillest night, With all appliances, and means to boot, Deny it to a king ?— The form of the FANTEE government is republican. A number of old men called Pinins, at the head... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...give thy repose To the wet-sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and the stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to...low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The enter-tissued... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, Wilh all appliances and means to boot. Deny it to a king...low,' lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Kater Warwick and Surrey. War. Many good morrows to your majesty ! K. Hen. Is it good morrow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances aud a son o'the king's, which Florizel I now name to yon ; and with speed so pace TospeakofPerdita crewn. Enter WAnwictcnd SLBRKY. Jf'ar. Many good morrows to your majesty! K. Jlen. Is it good morrow,... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a King? Then happy low, lie down! 30 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. In the soliloquies presented so far, direct address of... | |
 | Anthony Davies - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 240 pages
...insists that the crown be placed beside him on the pillow. His soliloquy on sleep, with its ending Then happy low, lie down / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown', is given over a cyclic visual structure, the King first standing before a barred window, his... | |
 | Orson Welles - Performing Arts - 1988 - 356 pages
...thy repose / To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, / And in the calmest and most stillest night, / With all appliances and means to boot, / Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! / 1025. ELS: the King, as at the beginning of 1023. K1NG: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...hour so rude, And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, 30 Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Enter Warwick and Surrey WARWICK Many good morrows to your majesty! KING HENRY IV Is it good... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Drama - 1994 - 308 pages
...that its moral authority rests upon a hypocrisy so deep that the hypocrites themselves believe it. 'Then (happy) low, lie down! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown' (III.i.3o-1): so the old pike tells the young dace. But the old pike actually seems to believe... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...therefore restored the passage in question to the text. STEEVENS. (V, 402-3) [39] [Ibid., 3.1.30f] Then, happy low, lie down! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ...Had not Shakespeare thought it necessary to subject himself to the tyranny of rhime, he would... | |
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