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#ShakespeareSunday - #TheHollowCrown: Henry V

A few of our favourite quotes at @hollowcrownfans ~

O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene. (Chorus.1)

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead! (A3/S1)

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry! England and Saint George! (A3/S1)

Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety (A3/S2)

For when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the
gentler gamester is the soonest winner. (A3/S6)

The king’s a bawcock, and a heart of gold,
A lad of life, an imp of fame;
Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string
I love the lovely bully. (A4,S1)

Every subject’s duty is the king’s; but every subject’s soul is his own. (A4/S1)

O, not to-day, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown!
I Richard’s body have interred anew;
And on it have bestow’d more contrite tears
Than from it issued forced drops of blood (A4/S1)

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. (A4/S3)

Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining mighty men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
This star of England. Fortune made his sword,
By which the world’s best garden he achieved,
And of it made his son imperial lord. (Epilogue)

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