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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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My subjects for a pair <strong>of</strong> carved saints,<br />

And my large kingdom for a little grave,<br />

A little little grave, an obscure grave;<br />

Or I’ll be buried in the king’s highway,<br />

Some way <strong>of</strong> common trade, where subjects’ feet<br />

May hourly trample on their sovereign’s head;<br />

For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;<br />

And buried once, why not upon my head?<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143<br />

Shall we play the wantons with our woes,<br />

And make some pretty match with shedding tears?<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 164<br />

Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,<br />

Which, like unruly children, make their sire<br />

Stoop with oppression <strong>of</strong> their prodigal weight.<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 3, sc. 4, l. 29<br />

Old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden.<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 3, sc. 4, l. 73<br />

Here did she fall a tear; here, in this place,<br />

I’ll set a bank <strong>of</strong> rue, sour herb <strong>of</strong> grace;<br />

Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,<br />

In the remembrance <strong>of</strong> a weeping queen.<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 3, sc. 4, l. 104<br />

Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,<br />

And in this seat <strong>of</strong> peace tumultuous wars<br />

Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;<br />

Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny<br />

Shall here inhabit, and this land be called<br />

<strong>The</strong> field <strong>of</strong> Golgotha and dead men’s skulls.<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 4, sc. 1, l. 139<br />

God save the king! Will no man say, amen?<br />

Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen.<br />

‘Richard II’ (1595) act 4, sc. 1, l. 172<br />

Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;<br />

Here cousin,<br />

On this side my hand and on that side thine.<br />

Now is this golden crown like a deep well<br />

That owes two buckets filling one another;<br />

<strong>The</strong> emptier ever dancing in the air,<br />

<strong>The</strong> other down, unseen, and full <strong>of</strong> water:

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