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" 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. "
Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes - Page 157
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790
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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...Gegen den Tod ist kein Kraut gewachsen. For death there is no medicine. German proverb By my troth, I care not, a man can die but once: We owe God a death . . . William Shakespeare When thou dost hear a toll or knell Then think upon thy passing bell. John...
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Anatomy of what We Value Most

William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...tatterdemalion troop of Sir John Falstaff, points out, in Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry IV: (781) "[W]e owe God a death;. ..he that dies this year is quit for the next." Feeble's thought regarding death made a deep impression on Ernest Hemingway, who reminisced about his...
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Uphill All the Way: A Crew Member's Inside Story of the BT Global Challenge

Alan Sears - Sports & Recreation - 1998 - 204 pages
...Sao Paolo to Rio to meet us had crashed, killing everyone on board. Now, suddenly one of us was gone. 'We owe God a death ... He that dies this year is quit for the next.' I often recall those lines from Henry IV; and yet none of us can escape the feeling that each of us...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...lie intreasured. 10250 Henry IV, Part 2 We have heard the chimes at midnight. 10251 Henry IV. Part 2 onnie Robertson 10252 Henry IV, Part 2 Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 10253 Henry IV, Part 2 Commit The...
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One by One

Gilbert Morris - Christian fiction - 2000 - 292 pages
...her in an unusual way. "The one line of Shakespeare I know came from a movie I saw. Somebody said, 'We owe God a death ... he that dies this year is quit for the next.'" Dani nodded. The second part of Henry the Fourth. A lump came into her throat, and she bowed her head...
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The Long Road of War: A Marine's Story of Pacific Combat

James W. Johnston - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...I was reading a book of Hemingway's works a while back in which he quoted Shakespeare. "By my troth I care not: a man can die but once; we owe God a death . . . and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next." I got some letters...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...emerges as a brave and patriotic man when he refuses to bribe Bardolph to escape service : By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once. We owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't be my destiny, so. And let it go which way it will, he that dies...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 6

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...splendour when, unlike Bullcalf and Mouldy, he does not attempt to escape from impressment : By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind: an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is too good to serve's...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...cannot help herself: you shall have forty, sir. BARDOLPH. Go to; stand aside. FEEBLE. By my troth, he greater therefore should our courage be. — Good morrow 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's...
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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

Murray Kempton - Communists - 2004 - 362 pages
...his words like those Shakespeare put into the mouth of the tailor called to the wars: "By my troth I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death; . . . and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next." The seizure of...
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