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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
Shakespeare
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Shakespeare · 287 chapters
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- PrefaceSample
- L ONDON
- L ONDON
- L ONDON
- L ONDON
- Addenda and Corrigenda.
- 30 So dreadful will not be as was his sight.
- 40 More than God or religious churchmen may.
- 95 The Duke of Alençon flieth to his side.
- C HARLES
- 90 And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.
- D UKE
- 25 Thou art no friend to God or to the king:
- 35 Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:
- Preface
- 30 But with a baser man of arms by far
- 50 So great fear of my name ’mongst them was spread
- 65 Where is best place to make our battery next.
- 75 One of thy eyes and thy cheek’s side struck off!
- D AUPHIN
- 10 My breast I’ll burst with straining of my courage
- 10 More blessed hap did ne’er befall our state.
- 20 Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
- 30 That we do make our entrance several ways;
- Preface
- 10 And that hereafter ages may behold
- 50 Yet hath a woman’s kindness over-ruled:
- 40 That hast by tyranny these many years
- V ERNON
- 50 Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red
- 85 Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?
- M ORTIMER
- 70 The reason moved these warlike lords to this
- 95 And that my fainting words do warrant death:
- ACT III.
- 20 A man of thy profession and degree;
- 40 And makes him roar these accusations forth.
- 70 That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
- 30 The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
- C HARLES
- 55 And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
- 70 And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.
- 95 That stout Pendragon in his litter sick
- C HARLES
- 20 To leave the Talbot and to follow us.
- 80 And made me almost yield upon my knees.
- Preface
- 10 And with submissive loyalty of heart
- 30 In honour of my noble Lord of York:—
- ACT IV.
- 25 My self and divers gentlemen beside
- V ERNON
- 95 About a certain question in the law
- 5 And thus he would: Open your city-gates;
- 40 Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;
- 35 And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
- 15 To make a bastard and a slave of me!
- 40 All these and more we hazard by thy stay;
- Preface
- 40 He answer’d thus: ‘Young Talbot was not born
- 55 We English warriors wot not what it means.
- 80 That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
- 10 And stablish quietness on every side.
- 45 He doth intend she shall be England’s queen.
- C HARLES
- Preface
- 20 Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
- M ARGARET
- 55 Thou art allotted to be ta’en by me:
- D UKE
- 35 To fill the world with vicious qualities.
- C HARLES
- 50 To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
- 75 If with a lady of so high resolve
- 95 I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.
- NOTES to I King Henry VI.
- 40 Here are the articles of contracted peace
- 90 And shall these labours and these honours die?
- D UKE
- 15 And never more abase our sight so low
- 40 And on my head did set the diadem.
- 65 And smooth my way upon their headless necks;
- 80 That shall make answer to such questions
- 90 The business asketh silent secrecy.
- Preface
- 45 Under the surly Gloucester’s governance?
- 65 In England work your grace’s full content.
- 85 Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.
- D UCHESS
- M ARGERY
- C ARDINAL
- 10 My lord protector’s hawks do tower so well;
- 35 For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.
- 65 A man that ne’er saw in his life before.
- 75 That we for thee may glorify the Lord.
- D UKE
- 65 Till I be crown’d and that my sword be stain’d
- bbc SCENE III. A hall of justice.
- Preface
- 20 Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!
- 40 No; dark shall be my light and night my day;
- 95 The re to be used according to your state.
- 70 From meaning treason to our royal person
- 90 And caterpillars eat my leaves away;
- Preface
- 45 Hide not thy poison with such sugar’d words;
- 65 What know I how the world may deem of me?
- 75 I am no loathsome leper; look on me.
- C ARDINAL
- 20 Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!
- ACT IV.
- 40 But with our sword we wiped away the blot;
- 55 And thought thee happy when I shook my head?
- 95 By shameful murder of a guiltless king
- Preface
- D ICK
- M ICHAEL.
- bdc SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath.
- 10 For God forbid so many simple souls
- 40 Until a power be raised to put them down.
- bde SCENE V. London. The Tower.
- C ADE
- C ADE
- L ORD
- 90 Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?
- C LIFFORD
- 45 Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry
- C LIFFORD.
- C ADE.
- I DEN.
- ACT V.
- 50 As pledges of my fealty and love;
- 70 That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.
- 80 And will that thou henceforth attend on us.
- 90 Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?
- C LIFFORD
- Preface
- 15 For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
- 35 Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
- 30 Saint Alban’s battle won by famous York
- NOTES to II King Henry VI.
- M ONTAGUE
- C LIFFORD
- M ARGARET
- D UKE
- M ORTIMER.
- Chapter
- Preface
- C LIFFORD
- ACT II.
- M ONTAGUE
- C LIFFORD
- M ONTAGUE
- Chapter
- Chapter
- Preface
- M ARGARET
- C LIFFORD
- M ONTAGUE
- ACT III.
- L ADY
- L. Grey.
- L. Grey.
- L. Grey.
- ccc SCENE III. France. The KING’S palace.
- L ADY
- cdb SCENE II. A plain in Warwickshire.
- Preface
- C LARENCE
- cdd SCENE IV. London. The palace.
- Chapter
- cdf SCENE VI. London. The Tower.
- Preface
- M ONTGOMERY
- cdh SCENE VIII. London. The palace.
- ACT V.
- M ONTAGUE
- C LARENCE
- Chapter
- Chapter
- M ARGARET
- C LARENCE
- Chapter
- cef SCENE VI. London. The Tower.
- ceg SCENE VII. London. The palace.
- NOTES to III King Henry VI.
- M ARGARET
- 70 And waste his subjects for to conquere
- 80 Reuersing Monuments of conquered
- SC. II. dab
- SC. III. dac
- SC. IV. dad
- SC. V. dae
- SC. VI. daf
- SC. VII. dag
- SC. VIII. dah
- SC. IX. dai
- SC. X. daj
- SC. XI. dak
- SC. XII. dal
- SC. XIII. dam
- SC. XIV dan
- SC. XV. dao
- SC. XVI. dap
- SC. XVII. daq
- SC. XVIII. dar
- SC. XIX. das
- SC. XX. dat
- SC. XXI. dau
- SC. XXII. dav
- Chapter
- Chapter
- Chapter
- SC. II. eab
- SC. III. eac
- Preface
- L. Clifford
- SC. V. eae
- SC. VI eaf
- SC. VII. eag
- SC. VIII. eah
- SC. IX. eai
- SC. X. eaj
- SC. XI. eak
- SC. XII. eal
- SC. XIII. eam
- SC. XIV. ean
- SC. XV. eao
- SC. XVI. eap
- SC. XIX. eas
- SC. XX. eat
- SC. XXI. eau
- SC. XXII. eav
- Preface
- Chapter
- Chapter
- C LARENCE
- fab SCENE II. The same. Another street.
- L ORD
- D ERBY.
- D ORSET.
- M ARGARET
- fad SCENE IV. London. The Tower.
- D ORSET
- D ERBY.
- C LARENCE.
- D ORSET
- D ERBY
- fbc SCENE III. London. A street.
- fbd SCENE IV. London. The palace.
- C ATESBY
- L ORD
- C ARDINAL.
- L ORD
- C ATESBY.
- L ORD
- fcc SCENE III. Pomfret Castle.
- fcd SCENE IV. The Tower of London.
- Preface
- L OVEL
- fcf SCENE VI. The same. A street.
- Preface
- C ATESBY.
- C ATESBY
- C LARENCE’S
- L ORD
- 45 Lest thou increase the number of the dead;
- 60 Of golden metal that must round my brow
- C ATESBY
- 30 That look into me with considerate eyes:
- 65 Uncertain way of gain! But I am in
- fdc SCENE III. The same.
- D UCHESS
- 80 That I should wish for thee to help me curse
- 90 To be the aim of every dangerous shot;
- C HRISTOPHER
- Preface
- C ATESBY
- 60 To Stanley’s regiment; bid him bring his power
- D ERBY
- C LARENCE.
- V AUGHAN.
- L ADY
- 5 Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.
- 5 From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
- Preface
- 1 Relent? no: ’Tis cowardly and womanish.