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Black Prince Bolingbroke Book Book of Chronicles Calais castell Caxton Chap CHAPTER chron chronicle plays Civil Wars counsayle Countess episode Daniel death dedes dramatist Duchess duke of Gloucestre edition Edward the Third English chronicles euery evidence Fabian Fleay France french kyng Froissart's chronicle Gloucester Grafton Hall hath Henry Henry VIII Holinshed icles issued Jack Straw Jean le Bel John Motton John Stow King Edward King Richard knight kyng of Englande lady Lancaster lines London Lord Berners Moreover murder narrative noble Painter Palace of Pleasure passages poem poet Polydore Polydore Vergil prisoner prose quarto Queen Isabel quene reference reign rhyme Richard II romance Samuel Daniel sayd SCENE Shakespeare shewed shulde sonne sources squyer story Stow ther thereof thou thynges tion toke tyme uncles unto Vergil Watte Tyler whan wolde Woodstock words writing wyll ye haue yere yuell
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Page 146 - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, "Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observed his courtship to the common people ; — How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen, with the craft of smiles, And patient undcrbearing of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Page 67 - The Raigne of King Edward the Third; As it hath bin sundrie times plaied about the Citie of London.
Page 74 - I can nat byleve that it is true that ye say, nor that so noble a prince as ye be, wold thynke to dyshonour me, and my lorde, my husbande, who is so valyant a knight, and hath done your grace so gode...
Page 149 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 40 - The historian scarcely giveth leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he, laden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay...
Page 28 - ... done so moche profyte to the humayne lyfe? They shewe, open, manifest and declare to the reder, by example of olde antyquite, what we shulde enquere, desyre, and folowe ; and also, what we shulde eschewe...
Page 78 - ... what can be hoped of those that thrust Elysium into hell, and have not learned, so long as they have lived in the spheres, the just measure of the horizon without an hexameter.
Page 87 - Than the kynge sayde, Is my sonne deed or hurt, or on the yerthe felled ? No sir, quoth the knyght, but he is hardely matched, wherfore he hathe nede of your ayde. Well...
Page 74 - Therwith the lady departed fro the kyng and went into the hall to hast the dyner; than she returned agayne to the kyng and broght some of his knyghtes with her, and sayd, Sir, yf it please you to come into the hall your knyghtes abideth for you to wasshe ; ye haue ben to long fastyng.
Page 68 - English prince, should hee hehold the true portrature of that famous King Edward the Third, foraging France, taking so great a king captive in his owne country, quartering the English lyons with the French flower-delyce, and would not bee suddenly inflam'd with so royale a spectacle, being made apt and fit for the like atchievement.