never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have defeated the law, and outruh native punishment*, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God: war is his beadle, war is his vengeance; so that here men are punished, for before-breach of the king's laws, in now the king's quarrel: where they feared the death, they have borne life away; and where they would be safe, they perish: Then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation, than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost, wherein such preparation was gained: and, in him that escapes, it were not sin to think, that making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to see his greatness, and to teach others how they should prepare. Will. 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill is upon his own head, the king is not to answer for it. THE MISERIES OF ROYALTY. O hard condition! twin-born with greatness, Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing! That private men enjoy? And what have kings, that privates have not too, i. e. Punishment in their native country. And what art thou, thou idol ceremony? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, - Think'st thou, the fiery fever will go out. Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave; **What is the real worth and intrinsic value of adoration ?" Farced is stuffed. The tumid puffy titles with which a king's name is introduced. The sun. And follows so the ever-running year Winding up days with toil, and nights with sleep, DESCRIPTION OF THE MISERABLE STATE OF THE ENGLISH ARMY. Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, KING HENRY'S SPEECH BEFORE THE BATTLE OF He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, scars, What feats he did that day: Then shall our names, Familiar in their mouths as household words, Harry the king, Bedford, and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, DESCRIPTION OF THE DUKE OF YORK'S DEATH. So did he turn, and over Suffolk's neck He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his lips; The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd Those waters from me, which I would have stopp'd; But all my mother came into mine eyes, ACT V. THE MISERIES OF WAR. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, * Reached. + Ploughshare. To deracinate is to force up the roots. KING HENRY VI. PART I. ACT I. GLORY. GLORY is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, ACT V. MARRIAGE. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship*. * * * * For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, KING HENRY VI. PART II. ACT I. A RESOLVED AND AMBITIOUS WOMAN. FOLLOW I must, I cannot go before, While Gloster bears this base and humble mind. Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, By the discretional agency of another, |