Shakspere's King Henry the Fourth, Part II: The Quarto of 1600

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W. Griggs, 1882 - 85 pages
 

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Page 47 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.
Page 39 - Hud do of Egypt". (Wearie of folide firmeneffe) melt it felfe 51 Into the Sea: and other Times, to fee The beachie Girdle of the Ocean Too wide for Neptunes hippes; how Chances mocks And Changes fill the Cuppe of Alteration 55 With diuers Liquors. *O if this were feene, *The happieft youth viewing his progreffe through, *What perills pad, what croffes to enfue?
Page 85 - One word more I beseech you, if you bee not too much cloyd with fatte meate, our humble Author will continue the storie with sir lohn in it, and make you merry with faire Katharine of Fraunce, (where for any thing I knowe...
Page 14 - ... goosbery, you that are old consider not the capacities of vs that are yong, you doe measure the heate of our liuers with the bitternesse of your galles, and we that are in the vaward of our youth, I must confesse are wagges too. Only Thomas Nashe could have replied to this. I would I might neuer spit white again: there is not a dangerous action can peepe out his head, but I am thrust vpon it.
Page 64 - Letters? losShee eyther gives a Stomack, and no Foode, (Such are the poore, in health) or elfe a Feaft, And takes away the Stomack (fuch are the Rich, That haue aboundance, and enioy it not.) FROM KING HENRY V. ACT III. SCENE iv.
Page 43 - ... accommodated' at in. ii. 76—9. The three versions run as follows: accommodated, that is when a man is as they say, accommodated, or when a man is being whereby, a may be thought to be accommodated, which is an excellent thing. (Q la) accommodated, that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated, or when a man is, beeing whereby, a may be thought to be accommodated, which is an excellent thing. (QI b) Accommodated: that is, when a man is (as they say) accommodated : or, when a man is, being...
Page 51 - ... you. MOWBRAY. Why not to him in part, and to vs all That feele the bruises of the daies before? And suffer the conditions of these times To lay a heauy and vnequall hand Vpon our honors. WEST. But this is meere digression from my purpose Here come I from our princely general!, To know your griefes, to tell you from his Grace, That he will giue you audience, etc. The most remarkable characteristic of the above continuous extract from the quarto text is the almost complete absence of any logical...

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