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" Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm... "
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Six Volumes ; Adorn'd with Cuts - Page 1069
by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709
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The History of Political Literature from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

Robert Blakey - Political science - 1855 - 482 pages
...this teeming womb of royal kings, Fcar'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out — Like to a tenement or pelting farm ! England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 1000 pages
...As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son : This land of such " " ! die pronouncing it,) Like to a tenement, or pelting* farm : England, bound in with the triumphant sea,...
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Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama

Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out - I die pronouncing it Like to a tenement or pelting farm. (II. i.40-60) 'Gaunt's patriotism,'...
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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land. Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm (Kuturdn. 2.1.40-60) But the syntax gradually...
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Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theatre

James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...your Papers, I shall, repeat only the Conclusion of it. This Land of such dear Souls, this dear-dear Land, Dear for her Reputation through the World, Is...dye pronouncing it) Like to a Tenement, or pelting Farm. England, bound in with the triumphant Sea, Whose rocky Shore beats back the envious Siege Of...
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An Audition Handbook of Great Speeches

Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, ... This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant sea,...
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The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the ...

Richard Halpern - Capitalism and literature - 1991 - 340 pages
...kingdom. John of Gaunt's famous speech on England ends with the darkly prophetic charge: This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land— Dear for her reputation through the world— Is now leased out—I die pronouncing it— Like to a tenement or pelting farm. (2.1.57-60) And Gaunt then...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's son; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out—I die pronouncing it— Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant...
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Channel Tunnel Visions, 1850-1945

Keith Wilson - Transportation - 1994 - 276 pages
...As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son; This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out, - I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea,...
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Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics

James Boyd White - Law - 1994 - 338 pages
...wrongdoing. This theme is sounded expansively in Gaunt's famous death-bed speech: This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out—I die pronouncing it— Like to a tenement or pelting farm. England, bound in with the triumphant...
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