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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Prince: As the honey <strong>of</strong> Hybla, my old lad <strong>of</strong> the castle.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [44]<br />

What, in thy quips and thy quiddities?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [50]<br />

Shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king, and resolution thus fobbed as it<br />

is with the rusty curb <strong>of</strong> old father antick, the law?<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [66]<br />

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [89]<br />

I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity <strong>of</strong> good names were to be bought.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [92]<br />

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [101]<br />

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one <strong>of</strong> the wicked.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [105]<br />

I’ll be damned for never a king’s son in Christendom.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [108]<br />

Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal; ’tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [116]. (referring to stealing).<br />

If he fight longer than he sees reason, I’ll forswear arms.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]<br />

If all the year were playing holidays,<br />

To sport would be as tedious as to work;<br />

But when they seldom come, they wished for come.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [226]<br />

And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,<br />

He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,<br />

To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corpse<br />

Betwixt the wind and his nobility.<br />

With many holiday and lady terms<br />

He questioned me.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 42<br />

So pestered with a popinjay.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 50<br />

It was great pity, so it was,<br />

This villainous saltpetre should be digged<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> the bowels <strong>of</strong> the harmless earth,<br />

Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed<br />

So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,<br />

He would himself have been a soldier.

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