The fair reverence of your Highness curbs me from giving reins and spurs to my free speechâRII1.1.56-7
Be ruled by meâRII1.1.156
What my tongue speaks my right-drawn sword may proveâRII1.1.47-8
Setting aside his high bloodâs royalty, and let him be no kinsman to my liege, I do defy him, and I spit at him, call him a slanderous coward and a villain, which to maintain I would allow him odds and meet him, were I tied to run afoot even to the frozen ridges of the Alps or any other ground inhabitable wherever Englishman durst set his footâRII1.1.60-8
Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and liveâRII1.3.83
The sun that warms you here shall shine on me, and those his golden beams to you here lent shall point on me and gild my banishmentâRII1.3.147-9
He was a king blest of the King of kings;âHVI1.1.1.28
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quakeâHVI2.4.8.17
Was ever king that joyed an earthly throne and could command no more content than IâHVI2.4.9.1-2
Youâll nor flight nor flyâHVI2.5.2.75
Though he be infortunate, assure yourselves, will never be unkindâHVI2.4.9.19-20
Iâll leave my son my virtuous deeds behindâHVI3.2.2.49
Would I were dead, if Godâs good will were so, for what is in this world but grief and woe?âHVI3.2.5.19-20
Was ever king so grieved for subjectsâ woe?âHVI3.2.5.111
I myself will lead a private life and in devotion spend my latter days, to sinâs rebuke and my Creatorâs praiseâHVI3.4.6.43-5
My meed hath got me fameâHVI3.4.8.38
I have not stopped mine ears to their demands, nor posted off their suits with slow delaysâHVI3.4.8.39-40
Was never subject longed to be a king as I do long and wish to be a subjectâHVI2.4.9.5-6
O God, which this blood madâst, revenge his deadthâRIII1.2.64
O Earth, which this blood drinkâst, revenge his deathâRIII1.2.65-6
WhoâŚhonors not his fatherâHVI2.4.8.16
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle by I was made a king at nine months oldâHVI2.4.9.3-4
That head of thine doth not become a crown; thy hand is made to grasp a palmerâs staff, and not to grace an awful princely scepterâHVI2.5.197-9
Base, fearful, and despairing Henry!âHVI3.1.1.182
This soft courage makes your followers faithâHVI3.2.2.57
That my death would stay these ruthful deedsâHVI3.2.5.95
Much is your sorrow, mine ten times so muchâHVI3.2.5.112
Here sits a king more woeful than you areâHVI3.2.5.124
My crown is in my heart, not on my headâHVI3.3.1.62
My crown is called contentâHVI3.3.1.64
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, my mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs, my mercy dried their water-flowing tearsâHVI3.4.8.41-3
I have not been desirous of their wealth nor much oppressed them with great subsidies, nor forward of revenge, though they much erredâHVI3.4.8.44-6
Henry, your sovereign, is prisoner to the foe, his state usurped, his realm a slaughterhouse, his subjects slain, his statutes cancelled and his treasure spent, and yonder is the wolf that makes this spoilâHVI3.5.4.76-80
I Daedalus, my poor boy IcarusâHVI3.5.6.22
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, and we are graced with wreaths of victoryâHVI3.5.3.1-2
The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy, and his physicians fear him mightilyâRIII1.1.140-1
He hearkens after prophecies and dreamsâRIII1.1.58
The King is wise and virtuousâRIII1.1.94-5
He cannot live, I hope, and must not die till George be packed with post-horse up to heavenâRIII1.1.149-150
The loss of such a lord includes all harmsâRIII1.3.9
More in peace my soul shall part to heaven since I have made my friends at peace on EarthâRIII2.1.5-6
Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, but praying, to enrich his watful soulâRIII3.7.77
That Edward still should live âtrue noble princeââRIII4.1.18
Since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these daysâRIII1.1.28-31
The children live whose fathers thou hast slaughtered, ungoverned youth, to wail it in their ageâRIII4.4.412-4
The parents live whose children thou hast butchered, old barren plants, to wail it with their ageâRIII4.4.415-7
My eyeâs too quick, my heart oâerweens too much, unless my hand and strength could equal themâHVI3.3.2.146-7
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, cheated of feature by dissembling nature, deformed, unfinished, sent before my time into this breathing world scarce half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me as I halt by themâRIII1.1.18-23
Thy friends suspect for traitors whil thou livâst, and take deep traitors for thy dearest friendsâRIII1.3.234-5
Say there is no kingdom then for Richard, what other pleasure can the world afford?âHVI3.3.2.148-9
Many a thousand which now mistrust no parcel of my [Henry VIâs] fear, and many an old manâs sigh, and many a widowâs and many an orphanâs water-standing eye, men for their sons, wives for their husbands, orphans for their parentsâ timeless death, shall rue the hour that ever thou wast bornâHVI3.5.6.38-44
The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil signâHVI3.5.6.45
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless timeâHVI3.5.6.46
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born to signify thou camâst to bite the worldâHVI3.5.6.54-5
I am too childish-foolish for this worldâRIII1.3.146
I came into the world with my legs forward. Had I not reason, think you, to make haste and seek their ruin that usurped our right?âHVI3.5.6.72-4
Black night oâershade thy day, and death thy lifeâRIII1.2.141
Thy deeds, inhuman and unnatural, provokes this deluge most unnaturalâRIII1.2.62-3
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, unless it be while some tormenting dream affrights thee with a hell of ugly devilsâRIII1.3.236-8
I have no brother, I am like no brotherâHVI3.5.6.81
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of othersâRIII1.3.345-6
Myself myself confound, heaven and fortune bar me happy hours, day, yield me not thy light, nor night thy rest, be opposite all planets of good luck to my proceeding if, with dear heartâs love, immaculate devotion, holy thoughts, I tender not thy beauteous princely daughterâRIII4.4.422-8
I do but dream on sovereignty like one that stands upon a promontory and spies a far-off shore where he would tread, wishing his foot were equal with his eye, and chides the sea that sunders him from thence, saying heâll lade it dry to have his wayâHVI3.3.2.136
This word âlove,â which graybeards call divine, be resident in men like one another and not in meâHVI3.5.6.82-4
I, in this weak piping time of peace, have no delight to pass away the time, unless to see my shadow in the sun and descant on mine own deformityâRIII1.1.24-7
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, smile in menâs faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemyâRIII1.3.49-51
If heaven have any grievous plague in store exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, o, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe and then hurl down their indignation on thee, the troubler of the poor worlâs peaceâRIII1.3.228-32
Villain, thou knowâst nor law of God nor manâRIII1.2.74
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot, myself to be a marvâlous proper manâRIII1.2.174-5
I would break a thousand oaths to reign one yearâHVI3.1.2.17
Love forswore me in my motherâs womb, and, for I should not deal in her soft laws, she did corrupt frail Nature with some bribe to shrink mine arm up like a withered shrubâHVI3.3.155-8
Thy mother felt more than a motherâs pain, and yet brought forth less than a motherâs hopeâHVI3.5.6.50-1
I am myself aloneâHVI3.5.6.84
I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, nor made to court an amorous looking glassâRIII1.1.14-5
I, that am rudely shaped and want loveâs majesty to strut before a wanton ambling nymphâRIII1.1.16-7
O, cursed be the hand that made these holesâRIII1.2.15
Cursed the heart that hand the heart to do itâRIII1.2.16
Cursed the blood that let this blood from henceâRIII1.2.17
More direful hap betide that hated wretchâŚthan I can wish to wolves, to spiders, toads, or any creeping venomed thing that livesâRIII1.2.18, 20-1
If ever he have child, abortive be it, prodigious, and untimely brought to light, whose ugly and unnatural aspect may fright the hopeful mother at the view, and that be heir to his unhappinessâRIII1.2.22-6
Foul devil, for Godâs sake, hence, and trouble us not, for thou has made the happy Earth thy hell, filled it with cursing cries and deep exclaimsâRIII1.2.51-4
Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity, for âtis thy presence that exhales this blood from cold and empty veins where no blood dwellsâRIII1.2.59-61
On me, that halts and am misshapen thusâRIII1.2.71
A murdârous villain, and so still thou artâRIII1.3.138
Hie thee to hell, for shame, and leave this world, thou cacodemonâRIII1.3.147-8
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soulâRIII1.3.233
I was too hot to do somebody good that is too cold in thinking of it nowâRIII1.3.330-1
I do the wrong and first being to brawlâRIII1.3.344
By heaven, my soul is purged from grudging hate, and with my hand I seal my true heartâs loveâRIII2.1.9-10 (Is his love his brother or the crown?)
Four lagging winters and four wanton springs end in a word; such is the breath of kingsâRII1.3.219-20
Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man and find no harbor in a royal heartâHVI2.3.1.338-9
Let them obey that knows not how to ruleâHVI2.5.1.6
But for a kingdom any oath may be brokenâHVI3.1.2.16
I am a king and privileged to speakâHVI3.2.2.123
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade to shepherds looking on their silly sheep than doth a rich embroidered canopy to kings that fear their subjectsâ treacheryâHVI3.2.5.42-5
Hadst thou swayed as kings should doâHVI3.2.6.13
Content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoyâHVI3.3.1.64-5
Fearless minds climb soonest unto crownsâHVI3.4.7.62
Know, then, it is your fault that you resign the supreme seat, the throne majestical, the sceptered office of your ancestors, your state of fortune, and your due of birth, the lineal glory of your royal house, to the corruption of a blemished stock, while in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts, which here we waken to our countryâs good, the noble isle doth want her proper limbsâ-her face defaced with scars of infamy, her royal stock graft with ignoble plants, and almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivionâRIII3.7.119-31
But as successively, from blood to blood, your right of birth, your empery, your ownâRIII3.7.137-8
The day is ours; the bloody dog is deadâRIII5.5.2
âTis not the trial of a womanâs war, the bitter clamor of two eager tongues, can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twainâRII1.1.50-2
And, being a woman, I will not be slack to play my part in Fortuneâs pageantâHVI2.1.2.69-70
Madam, myself have limed a bush for her and placed a choir of such enticing birds that she will light to listen to the lays and never mount to trouble you againâHVI2.1.3.91-4
Die, damnèd wretch, the curse of her that bare theeâHVI2.4.10.79
How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex to triumph like an Amazonian trull upon their woes whom Fortune captivatesâHVI3.1.4.115-7
âTis beauty that doth oft make women proudâHVI3.1.4.131
âTis virtue that doth make them most admiredâHVI3.1.4.133
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexibleâHVI3.1.4.144
Women and children of so high a courage, and warriors faint? Why, âtwere perpetual shame!âHVI3.5.4.50-1
Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother, of the young prince your sonâRIII2.2.98-9
If you do fight in safeguard of your wives, your wives shall welcome home the conquerorsâRIII5.3.274-5
Within so small a time my womanâs heart grossly grew captive to his honey words and proved the subject of mine own soulâs curseâRIII4.1.83-5
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and statesâHVI1.1.1.1-2
Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apaceâRIII2.4.14-5
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind and makes it fearful and degenerateâHVI2.4.4.1-2
Methinks I would not grow so fast because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make hasteâRIII2.4.16-8
The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless preutation; that away, men are but gilden loam or painted clayâRII1.1.183-5
We were not born to sue, but to command, which, since we cannot do, to make your friends, be ready, as your lives shall answer it, at Coventry upon Saint Lambertâs dayâRII1.1.201-5
Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud, and caterpillars eat my leaves awayâHVI2.3.1.90-1
Till then fair hope must hinder lifeâs decayâHVI3.4.4.16
Moreover, urge his hateful luxury and bestial appetite in change of lust, which stretched unto their servants, daughters, wives, even where his raging eye or savage heart, without control, lusted to make a preyâRIII3.5.81-6
Pride went before; ambition follows himâHVI2.1.1.198
When the lion fawns upon the lamb, the lamb will never cease to follow himâHVI3.4.8.49-50
Iâll make thee eat iron like an ostrich and swallow my sword like a great pinâHVI2.4.10.28-29
For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks withinâHVI3.4.7.11-2
Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea forced by the tide to combat with the windâHVI3.2.5.5-6
Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea forced to retire by fury of the windâHVI3.2.5.7-8
Sometime the flood prevails, and then the windâHVI3.2.5.9
Thus yields the cedar to the axeâs edge, whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, under whose shade the ramping lion slept, whose top branch overpeered Joveâs spreading tree and kept low shrubs from winterâs powârful windâHVI3.5.2.10-5
Sorrow would solaceâHVI2.2.3.23
He hath no home, no place to fly to, nor knows he how to live but by the spoil, unless by robbing of your friends and usâHVI2.4.8.39-41
Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet the daintiest last, to make the end most sweetâRII1.3.67-8
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleetâHVI2.2.4.1-4
Who cannot steal a shape that means deceitâHVI2.3.1.80
There is no virtue like necessityâRII1.3.284
Now âtis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; suffer them now, and theyâll oâergrow the garden and choke the herbs for want of husbandryâHVI2.3.1.31-3
Could this kiss be printed in thy hand, that thou mightst think upon these by the seal, through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for theeâHVI2.3.2.355-7
Ill blows the wind that profits nobodyâHVI3.2.5.55
Whiles lions war and battle for their dens, poor harmless lambs abide their enmityâHVI.2.5.74-5
What makes robbers bold but too much lenityâHVI3.2.6.21
Iâll join with black despair against my soul and to myself become an enemyâRIII2.2.37-8
Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy gloryâRIII4.1.67
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggaryâRIII4.3.57
To weep is to make less the depth of griefâHVI3.2.1.84
Now death shall stop his dismal threatâning sound, and his ill-boding tongue no more shall speakâHVI3.2.6.57-8
Face to face and frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear the accuser and the accused freely speakâRII1.1.16-8
Small curs are not regarded when they grin, but great men tremble when the lion roarsâHVI2.3.1.18-19
Here shall they make their ransom on the sand, or with their blood stain this discolored shoreâHVI2.4.1.10-1
These days are dangerous. Virtue is choked with foul ambition, and charity chased hence by rancorâs hand; foul subordination is predominantâHVI2.3.1.143-6
Whatâs more miserable than discontentâ-HVI2.3.1.202
Things are often spoke and seldom meantâ-HVI2.3.1.270
So just is God to right the innocentâRIII1.3.189
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, which after-hours gives leisure to repentâRIII4.4.306-7
Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place to wash away my woeful monumentsâHVI2.3.2.353-4
The senseless winds shall grin in vain, who in contempt shall hiss at thee againâHVI2.4.1.83-4
Thy motherâs name is ominous to childrenâRIII4.1.43
Either thou wilt die by Godâs just ordinance ere from this war thou turn a conqueror, or I with grief and extreme age shall perish and nevermore behold thy face againâRIII4.4.193-6
Nor can my tongue unload my heartâs great burden, for selfsame wind that I should speak withal is kindling coals that fires all my breast and burns me up with flames that tears would quenchâHVI3.2.1.81-5
A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest is a bold spirit in a loyal breastâRII1.1.186-7
But since correction lieth in those hands which made the fault that we cannot correct, put we our quarrel to the will of heaven, who, when they see the hours ripe on Earth, will rain hot vengeance on offendersâ headsâRII1.2.4-8
What stronger breastplate than a heart untaintedâHVI2.3.2.240
Off with the crown and, with the crown, his head; and whilst we breathe, take time to do him deadâHVI3.1.4.108-9
But in the midst of this bright-shining day, I spy a black suspicious threatâning cloud that will encounter with our glorious sun ere he attain his easeful western bedâHVI3.5.3.3-6
You cannot reason almost with a man that looks not heavily and full of dreadâRIII2.3.43-4
Not sick, although I have to do with death, but lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breathâRII1.2.65-6
The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me, knowing that thou wouldst have me drowned on shore with tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindnessâHVI2.3.2.97-9
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling fleshâRIII5.3.193
Make my image but an alehouse signâHVI2.3.2.83
Of have I seen a hot oâerweening cur run back and bit because he was withheld, who, being suffered with the bearâs fell paw, hath clapped his tail between his legs and criedâHVI2.5.1.155-8
Now begins a second storm to rise, for this is he that moves both wind and tideâHVI3.3.3.50-1
What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tideâHVI3.4.3.60-1
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mindâHVI3.5.6.11
The tiger now hath seized the gentle hindâRIII2.4.55
Even thus two friends condemned embrace and kiss and take then thousand leaves, loather a hundred times to part than dieâHVI2.3.2.366-8
Some lay in dead menâs skulls, and in the holes where eyes did once inhabit, there were creptâas âtwere in scorn of eyesâreflecting gems, that wooed the slimy bottom of the deep and mocked the dead bones that lay scattered byâRIII1.4.30-4
Then thus I turn me from my countryâs light, to dwell in solemn shades of endless nightâRII1.3.179-80
This battle fares like to the morningâs war, when dying clouds contend with growing light, what time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, can neither call it perfect day nor nightâHVI3.2.5.1-4
Let Aesop fable in a winterâs nightâHVI3.5.5.25
I passed, methought, the melancholy flood, with that sour ferryman which poets write of, unto the kingdom of perpetual nightâRIII1.4.46-8
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning, and the noontide nightâRIII1.4.78-9
When the sun sets, who doth not look for nightâRIII2.3.38
The lights burn blue; it is now dead midnightâRIII5.3.192
It is a reeling world indeed, my lord, and I believe will never stand uprightâRIII3.2.39-40
Dark cloudy death oâershades his beams of lifeâHVI3.2.6.62
Deep malice makes too deep incisionâRII1.1.159
Mine honor is my life; both grow in oneâRII1.1.188
Take honor from me and my life is doneâRII1.1.189
So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul, or I should breathe it so into thy body, and then it lived in sweet ElysiumâHVI2.3.2.412-4
Wizards know their times. Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, the time of night when Troy was set on fire, the time when screech owls cry and bandogs howl, and spirits walk, and ghosts break up their gravesâHVI2.1.4.17-21
Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his spraysâHVI2.2.3.47
Princes have but their titles for their glories, an outward honor for an inward toil, and, for unfelt imaginations, they often feel a world of restless cares, so that between their titles and low name thereâs nothing differs but the outward fameâRIII1.4.80-5
Lions make leopards tameâRII1.1.180
My brotherâs love, the devil, and my rageâRIII1.4.230
If you do free your children from the sword, your childrenâs children quits it in your ageâRIII5.3.76-7
I rather would have lost my life betimes than bring a burden of dishonor home by staying there so long till all were lostâHVI2.3.1.299-301
Never yet dis base dishonor blur our name but with our sword we wiped away the blotâHVI2.4.1.40-1
But Hercules himself must yield to oddsâHVI3.2.1.53
Take heed, for He holds vengeance in HIs hand to hurl upon their heads that break His lawâRIII1.4.205-6
I fear me you but warm the starved snake, who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your heartsâHVI2.3.1.348-9
All my bodyâs moisture scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heartâHVI3.2.1.79-80
Hide not thy poison with such sugared wordsâHVI2.3.2.47
Set down, set down your honorable load, if honor may be shrouded in a hearseâRIII1.2.1-2
Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spurâRII1.2.9
So cowards fight when they can fly no furtherâHVI3.1.4.40
The readiest way to make the wench amends is to become her husband and her fatherâRIII1.1.159-60
Erroneous vassals, the great King of kings hath in the table of His law commanded that thou shalt do no murderâRIII1.4.201-3
Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent that PhaĂŤton should check thy fiery steeds, thy burning car never had scorched the EarthâHVI3.3.6.10-2
Untimely storms makes men expect a dearthâRIII2.3.39
These eyes, that now are dimmed with deathâs black veil, have been as piercing as the midday sun to search the secret treasons of the worldâHVI3.5.2.16-19
All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, that I, being governed by the watery moon, may send forth plenteous tears to drown the worldâRIII2.2.70-2
The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perchâRIII1.3.71-2
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day is crept into the bosom of the sea, and now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades that drag the tragic melancholy night, who, with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings clip dead menâs graves, and from their misty jaws breathe foul contagious darkness in the airâHVI2.4.1.1-7
For what doth cherish weeds but gentle airâHVI3.2.6.20
As good to chide the waves as speak them fairâHVI3.5.4.23
Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed.âRII1.1.160
Our doctors say this is no month to bleedâRII1.1.161
Think therefore on revenge, and cease to weepâHVI2.4.4.3
Death and destruction dogs thee at thy heelsâRIII4.1.42
I seek not to wax great by othersâ waningâHVI2.4.10.21
Short summers lightly have a forward springâRIII3.1.95
True hope is swift, and flies with swallowâs wingsâRIII5.2.24
It is great sin to swear unto a sin, but greater sin to keep a sinful oathâHVI2.5.1.186-7
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oakâHVI3.2.1.54-5
My mangled body shows, my blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows that I must yield my body to the earth and, by my fall, the conquest to my foeâHVI3.5.2.7-10
When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaksâRIII2.3.35-6
And all my followers to the eager foe turn back and fly like ships before the wind, or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolvesâHVI3.1.4.3-5
Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal, and mortal eyes cannot endure the devilâRIII1.2.45-6
Off with the crown and, with the crown, his head; and whilst we breathe, take time to do him deadâHVI3.1.4.108-9
You cannot reason almost with a man that looks not heavily and full of dreadâRIII2.3.43-4
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, and doves will peck in safeguard of their broodâHVI3.2.2.17-8
I can add colors to the chameleon, change shapes with Proteus for advantages, and set the murderous Machiavel to schoolâHVI3.3.2.193-5
Every cloud engenders not a stormâHVI3.5.3.13
By a divine instinct, menâs minds mistrust ensuing danger, as by rpoof we see the water swell before a boistârous stormâRIII2.3.46-8
Hath love in thy old blood no living fireâRII1.2.10
I cannot justify whom the law condemnsâHVI2.2.3.18
A heart unspotted is not easily dauntedâHVI2.3.1.101
A staff is quickly found to beat a dogâHVI2.3.1.172
Be that thou hopâst to be, or what thou are resign to deathâHVI2.3.1.336-7
Came he right now to sing a ravenâs note, whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers, and thinks that he the chirping of a wren, by crying comfort from a hollow breast, can chase away the first conceivèd soundâHVI2.3.2.42-6
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds where it should guardâHVI2.5.2.32-3
He that is truly dedicate to war hath no self-loveâHVI2.5.2.37-8
How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, within whose circuit is Elysium and all that poets feign of bliss and joyâHVI3.1.2.29-31
Now PhaĂŤton hath tumbled from his car and made an evening at the noontide prickâHVI3.1.4.32-4
My ashes, as the Phoenixâ, may bring forth a bird that will revenge upon you allâHVI3.1.4.35-6
So doves do peck the falconâs piercing talonsâHVI3.1.4.41
It is warâs prize to take all vantages, and ten to one is no impeach of valorâHVI3.1.4.59-60
My joy of liberty is half eclipsedâHVI3.4.6.64
We will not from the helm to sit and weep, but keep our course, though the rough wind say no, from shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrackâHVI3.5.4.21-3
The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bushâHVI3.5.6.13-4
âTis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a manâs bosomâRIII1.4.143-4
When great leaves fall, then winter is at handâRIII2.3.37
Truly, the hearts of men are full of fearâRIII2.3.42
But yet you see how soon the day oâercastâRIII3.2.87
The leisure and the fearful time cuts off the ceremonious vows of love and ample interchange of sweet discourse, which so-long-sundered friends should dwell uponâRIII5.3.103-6
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hellâRIII5.3.331