King Henry the Fifth: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Families

William Shakespeare

Ginn & Company, 1887 - 194 pages

Contents

• Section 1: 6
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 12
• Section 4: 33
• Section 5: 39
• Section 6: 44
• Section 7: 49
• Section 8: 63
• Section 9: 65
• Section 10: 68
• Section 11: 76
• Section 12: 82
• Section 13: 84
• Section 14: 94
• Section 15: 96
• Section 16: 99
• Section 17: 107
• Section 18: 108
• Section 19: 109
• Section 20: 111
• Section 21: 114
• Section 22: 115
• Section 23: 128
• Section 24: 135
• Section 25: 136
• Section 26: 139
• Section 27: 152
• Section 28: 154
• Section 29: 155
• Section 30: 157
• Section 31: 171
• Section 32: 173
• Section 33: 178
• Section 34: 180
• Section 35: 182

Popular passages

Page 85 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.

Page 74 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any Christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide ; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...

Page 52 - The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...

Page 130 - I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour, As one man more, methinks , would share from me, For the best hope I have. O , do not wish one more ! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart...

Page 84 - 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...

Page 27 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out, For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful, and good husbandry : Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all ; admonishing, That we should 'dress us fairly for our end. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.

Page 131 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...

Page 188 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say To-morrow is Saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.

Page 130 - If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss ; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

Page 122 - And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony ? And what art thou, thou idol ceremony ? What kind of god art thou, that suffer...

Bibliographic information

• Title: King Henry the Fifth: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Families
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Publisher: Ginn & Company, 1887
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Feb 15, 2008
• Length: 194 pages