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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Where, for anything I know, Falstaff shall die <strong>of</strong> a sweat, unless already a’ be killed with your<br />

hard opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.<br />

‘Henry IV, Part 2’ (1597) act 5, sc. 5, epilogue, l. [32]<br />

7.66.10 Henry V<br />

O! for a Muse <strong>of</strong> fire, that would ascend<br />

<strong>The</strong> brightest heaven <strong>of</strong> invention;<br />

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act<br />

And monarchs to behold the swelling scene.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) chorus, l. 1<br />

Can this cockpit hold<br />

<strong>The</strong> vasty fields <strong>of</strong> France? or may we cram<br />

Within this wooden O the very casques<br />

That did affright the air at Agincourt?<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) chorus, l. 11<br />

Consideration like an angel came,<br />

And whipped the <strong>of</strong>fending Adam out <strong>of</strong> him.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28<br />

When he speaks,<br />

<strong>The</strong> air, a chartered libertine, is still.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 1, sc. 1, l. 47<br />

O noble English! that could entertain<br />

With half their forces the full pride <strong>of</strong> France,<br />

And let another half stand laughing by,<br />

All out <strong>of</strong> work, and cold for action.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 111<br />

And make your chronicle as rich with praise<br />

As is the owse and bottom <strong>of</strong> the sea<br />

With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 163<br />

For so work the honey-bees,<br />

Creatures that by a rule in nature teach<br />

<strong>The</strong> act <strong>of</strong> order to a peopled kingdom.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have a king and <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> sorts;<br />

Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,<br />

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,<br />

Others, like soldiers, arméd in their stings,<br />

Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds;<br />

Which pillage they with merry march bring home<br />

To the tent-royal <strong>of</strong> their emperor:

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