The Tragedy of King Richard II

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Clarendon Press, 1876 - Počet stran: 158

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Strana 86 - to relate amusing stories. 91. More is here superfluous. 97. securely, surely, certainly. 112. approve, prove. See Merchant of Venice, iii. 2. 79: ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text?
Strana 87 - following lines is used in the sense of' because' as in Othello, iii. 3. 263 : ' Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declined Into the vale of years.' According to Holinshed the sentence was read by Sir John Bushy, the king's
Strana 122 - sour herb of grace. Compare Hamlet, iv. 5. 181 : 'There's rue for you ; and here's some for me : we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays.' And Winter's Tale, iv. 4. 74: 'For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long: Grace and remembrance be to you both.*
Strana 120 - 158 : 25. I will stake my great wretchedness against the merest trifle. ' Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,' &c. Ib. woe is forerun with woe, sadness is the harbinger or
Strana 127 - 130. climate, region of earth or sky. See Julius Caesar, i. 3. 32: •For I believe they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon.' Compare King John, ii. i. 344: 'By this hand I swear, That sways the earth this climate overlooks.
Strana 86 - Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.' See also Richard III. v. 3. 341, and King John, iv. 2. 137. 76. casque, helmet. See Henry V. Prologue 13 : ' The very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt.
Strana 89 - 189. plot, contrive, or complot. This almost tautological language is used, as in legal documents, to include every form of conspiracy in the oath. 190. our state, our royal dignity. See Tempest, i. 2. 76 : ' The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger ;
Strana 20 - i' The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past: Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear, My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear. Tork. No; it is
Strana 51 - deposed? The king shall be contented: must he lose The name of king ? o' God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, 150 My sceptre for a palmer's
Strana 11 - a twofold vigour lift me up To reach at victory above my head, Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers ; And with thy blessings steel my lance's point, That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat, And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt, Even in the lusty haviour of his son.

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