A quotation from Shakespeare

KING HENRY:   Though I did wish him dead,
   I hate the murderer, love him murderèd.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 6, l. 39ff (5.6.39-40) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

SALISBURY: O, call back yesterday, bid time return ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 70 (3.2.50) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: You may my glories and my state depose
   But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 201ff (4.1.201-202) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD:      For within the hollow crown
   That rounds the mortal temples of a king
   Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits,
   Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
   Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
   To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
   Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
   As if this flesh which walls about our life
   Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
   Comes at the last and with a little pin
   Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 165ff (3.2.165-175) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
   And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
   How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
   Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
   All murdered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

KING RICHARD: Not all the water in the rough rude sea
   Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
   The breath of worldly men cannot depose
   The deputy elected by the Lord.
   For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
   To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
   God for His Richard hath in heavenly pay
   A glorious angel. Then, if angels fight,
   Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 55ff (3.2.55) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

GAUNT: This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
   This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
   This other Eden, demi-paradise,
   This fortress built by Nature for herself
   Against infection and the hand of war,
   This happy breed of men, this little world,
   This precious stone set in the silver sea,
   Which serves it in the office of a wall
   Or as a moat defensive to a house,
   Against the envy of less happier lands,
   This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 45ff (2.1.45-56) (1595)

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A quotation from Shakespeare

GAUNT: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
   Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
   He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
   With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder;
   Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
   Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 37ff (2.1.37-44) (1595)

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