[King Henry V. continued.

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. I.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.

Ibid.

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

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

Ibid.

Act iii. Sc. 6.

valiant flea that

You may as well say, that's a dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. Act iii. Sc. 7.1

The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fix'd 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.

Activ. Chorus.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.

Activ. Sc. I.

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

Ibid.

1 Act iii. Sc. 6, Dyce.

King Henry V. continued.]

That's a perilous shot out of an elder

gun.

Act iv. Sc. I.

Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread.

Ibid.

Winding up days with toil, and nights with sleep.

But, if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.

Ibid.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian :
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. Ibid.

Then shall our names,

Familiar in their mouths 1as household words, -
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, -
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.

Ibid.

There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth . . . and there is salmons in both. Act iv. Sc. 7.

In the universal 'orld, or in France, or in England. 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 yet I swear.

Ibid.

If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. Ibid.

1 'in his mouth,' White, Cambridge, Knight.

KING HENRY VI., PART I.

Hung be the heavens with black.

Act i. Sc. I.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

Delays have dangerous ends.

Act ii. Sc. 4.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Act v. Sc. 3.

KING HENRY VI., PART II.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face. Act i. Sc. 3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. Act iii. Sc. I.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.1

He dies, and makes no sign.

Act iii. Sc. 2.

Act iii. Sc. 3.

1 I'm armed with more than complete steel,

The justice of my quarrel.

Lust's Dominion.

King Henry VI., Part II., continued.]

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea. Act iv. Sc. 1.

There shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. Act iv. 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. Act iv. Sc. 7.

KING HENRY VI., PART III. How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Act i. Sc. 2. And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Act ii. Sc. 2.

[King Henry VI., Part III., continued.

Things ill got had ever bad success,

And happy always was it for that son

Whose father, for his hoarding, went to hell?

Act ii. Sc. 2.

Warwick, peace;

Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings.

Act iii. Sc. 3.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

Act iv. Sc. 8.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind:
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

KING RICHARD III.

Now is the winter of our discontent

Act v. Sc. 6.

Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled.
front.

And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber,
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

But I that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;