We have heard the chimes at midnight. A man can die but once. King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. Ibid. Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame.” Sc. 3. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. Sc. 4. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. Sc. 5.1 Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways. Ibid.1 A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. Act v. Sc. 1. Sc. 2. His cares are now all ended. Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good." Sc. 3. Ibid. A foutre for the world and worldlings base! Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend Consideration, like an angel, came Ibid. King Henry V. Prologue. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. 1 Act iv. Sc. 4 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White. Act i. Sc. 1. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. - Henry VI. part iii. act ii. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, Base is the slave that pays. Even at the turning o' the tide. King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. Act ii. Sc. 1. Sc. 3. His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. As cold as any stone. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Ibid. Ibid. Sc. 4. Act iii. Sc. 1. And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Straining upon the start. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Men of few words are the best men. I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. Ibid. Ibid. Sc. 2. Ibid. Sc. 6. You may as well say, that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. The hum of either army stilly sounds, The secret whispers of each other's watch. 1 Act iii. Sc. 6 in Dyce. Sc. 7.1 Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs With busy hammers closing rivets up,1 Give dreadful note of preparation. King Henry V. Act iv. Prologue. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. Sc. 1. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. That's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. Ibid. Ibid. Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. Ibid. Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. Ibid. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. Sc. 3 This day is called the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth; and there is salmons Sc. 7. in both. 1 With clink of hammers closing rivets up. - CIBBER: Richard III. Altered, act v. sc. 3. 2 "In their mouths" in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White. An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8. There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. Act v. Sc. 1. By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear. All hell shall stir for this. Ibid. Ibid. If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Halcyon days. Sc. 2. King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Delays have dangerous ends.1 She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; Main chance.2 Sc. 2. Act ii. Sc. 4. Act iii. Sc. 2. Act v. Sc. 3. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. I'd set my ten commandments in your face. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.3 1 All delays Sc. 3. Act iii. Sc. 1. 2 Have a care o' th' main chance. are dangerous in war. - DRYDEN: Tyrannic Love, act i. sc. 1. BUTLER: Hudibras, part ii. canto i Be careful still of the main chance. — DRYDEN: Persius, satire vi. See Raleigh, page 25; Lyly, page 33. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. He dies, and makes no sign. Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Sc. 3. Ibid Act iv. Sc. 1. 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. Sc. 2. 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? Ibid. Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. Ibid. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! Sc. 7. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2. And many strokes, though with a little axe, 1 See Marlowe, page 40. Act ii. Sc. 1. |