King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2

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Ginn, Heath, & Company, 1881
 

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Page 216 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. 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: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass: and when I am king, as king I will be, — ALL God save your majesty!
Page 217 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the ' lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. 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...
Page 198 - To blush and beautify the cheek again. ' But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; ' His eyeballs further out than when he lived, ' Staring full ghastly like a strangled man...
Page 47 - And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 43 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth. From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 30 Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Page 130 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 130 - Base-minded men all three of you, if by my misery ye be not warned ; for unto none of you (like me) sought those burs to cleave,— those puppets, I mean, — that speak from our mouths, — those antics garnished in our colours.

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