 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...three kingdoms under one head. -" Strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eyet The mere despair of surgery, he cures; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks" &c. Act IV., SceueS. This miraculous power of curing the "king's evil," was claimed for seven centuries... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1844 - 194 pages
...England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows ; but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. MACBETH, Act iv, Sc. 3. THE credulity of mankind has never been more strongly displayed than in the... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 pages
...England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven Himself best knows ; but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy, And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 pages
...England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven Himself best knows; but strangely-visited people. All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtuŠ He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy, And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 506 pages
...England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...cures' ; Hanging a golden stamp * about their necks, 8 convince! — ] ie overpowers, subdues. 3 The mere despair of surgery, he cures ;] Dr. Percy, in... | |
 | René Jules Dubos, Jean Dubos - 1987 - 320 pages
...Shakespeare describes how the king "touched" the scrofulous patients: . . . strangely-visited people All swol'n and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing beneoiction . . . Royal records reveal that on both sides of the Channel many thousands of pilgrims... | |
 | 1875 - 398 pages
...portion of inheritance unto his successors, the kings of this realm." Or, as Shakspere has it — " Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with...succeeding royalty he leaves the healing benediction. " The coin, or touch-piece, given at a later date (Henry VII.), was the noble — equal to six shillings... | |
 | Anthony Davies, Stanley Wells - 1994 - 280 pages
...seen with his very own eyes: How he solicits Heaven, Himself best knows; but strangely-visited people. All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. (4.3.149-56) The 'succeeding royalty', as a Jacobean audience would well know, includes King James... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1995 - 238 pages
...England, I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows; but strangely-visited people, All swol'n and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere...leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue He hath a heav'nly gift of prophecy, And sundry blessings hang about his throne That speak him... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...Macbeth, where his curative powers are described in some detail: strangely-visited people, All swoll'n and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair...succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. (4.3.150) The matter had to be handled adroitly, and was. As one of the "succeeding royalty" James... | |
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Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy ; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak him full of grace. 
