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will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism. King Henry IV., Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

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Ibid.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed

Thy maiden sword.

Ibid.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.

Ibid.

I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.

Ibid.

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,

So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,

And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.
King Henry IV., Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remembered tolling a departing friend.

Ibid.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Act i. Sc. 2.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the salt

ness of time.

Ibid.

We that are in the vaward of our youth.

King Henry IV., Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.

For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.

Ibid.

It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Past and to come seems best; things present worst.

I'll tickle your catastrophe.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Act i. Sc. 3.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Ibid.

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.

I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.

Let the end try the man.

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

He was indeed the glass

Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

O sleep, O gentle sleep,

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 3.

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

With all appliances and means to boot.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Act iii. Sc. 1.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? King Henry IV., Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

Ibid.

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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.

Ibid.

I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, saw, and overcame.'

Act iv. Sc. 3.

He hath a tear for pity and a hand

Open as day for melting charity.

Act iv. Sc. 4.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

Commit

The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

Act iv. Sc. 5.1

Ibid.

A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.

A foutre for the world and worldlings base!
I speak of Africa and golden joys.

Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die.

Act v. Sc. 1.

Act v. Sc. 3.

1 Act iv. Sc. 4, Dyce, Singer, Staunton, White.

Ibid.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!

King Henry V. Prologue.

Consideration, like an angel, came

And whipped the offending Adam out of him.

Turn him to any cause of policy,

The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.

Base is the slave that pays.

Act i. Sc. 1.

Ibid.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin

As self-neglecting.

Act ii. Sc. 3.

Act ii. Sc. 4.

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;

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Act iii. Sc. 1.
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Ibid.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start.

Men of few words are the best men.

I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen.

Ibid.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Act iii. Sc. 6.

You may as well say, that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

1 Act iii. Sc. 6, Dyce.

Act iii. Sc. 7.1

The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other's watch:
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other's umbered face;
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents
The armourers, accomplishing the knights,
With busy hammers closing rivets up,

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.

Act iv. Sc. 1.

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every sub

ject's soul is his own.

That's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun.

Who with a body filled and vacant mind

Ibid.

Ibid.

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.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

This day is called the feast of Crispian :
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

Then shall our names,

Familiar in his mouth1 as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

1 'in their mouths,' Dyce, Singer, Staunton, White.

Ibid.

Ibid.

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