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King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.
Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!
King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
King Henry V. Prologue.
Consideration, like an angel, came
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.
King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.
Base is the slave that pays.
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Even at the turning o' the tide.
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.
His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.
As cold as any stone.
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Men of few words are the best men.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6.
You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.[91:1]
The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch;
[92]Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umbered face;
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,[92:1]
Give dreadful note of preparation.
King Henry V. Act iv. Prologue.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Who with a body filled and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth[92:2] as household words,—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,—
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.
There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth; . . . and there is salmons in both.
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 7.
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An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England!
King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear.
King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
All hell shall stir for this.
King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.
If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2.
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.
Halcyon days.
King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.
Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,—
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Delays have dangerous ends.[93:1]
King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.
She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.
Main chance.[93:2]
King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.
Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.[93:3]
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.[94:1]
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
He dies, and makes no sign.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
And let us all to meditation.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 1.
There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.
How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
Within whose circuit is Elysium
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!
King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Warwick, peace,
Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,—
[96]Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 1.
To leave this keen encounter of our wits.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.
Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.
Framed in the prodigality of nature.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.
The world is grown so bad,
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.[96:1]
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With old odd ends stolen out of[96:2] holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!
What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon,
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scattered in the bottom of the sea:
Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.
King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.
A parlous boy.
King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.[97:1]
King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Off with his head![97:2]
King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.
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