 This England never did (nor never shall) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 164by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...convenient focus for the loyalty of a reunited England in the Bastard's speech at the close of the day. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall... | |
 | Deborah T. Curren-Aquino - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 220 pages
...closest sustained borrowing in Shakespeare's text), the Bastard pronounces the lesson of Tudor homilies: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. .... Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true! (5.7.112-18) This signifies closure.... | |
 | A. J. Hoenselaars - Drama - 1992 - 366 pages
...reference to other, foreign nations is conveyed in Faulconbridge's famous lines that end the history: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. — Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall... | |
 | Lars Magnusson - Commerce - 1997 - 264 pages
...native energy, enterprise, and intellect, fair play and then in industry, as in arms: Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them:...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Commerce is merely the handmaid of industry. The proper sphere of commerce is to distribute industrial... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - Electronic books - 1997 - 276 pages
...And true subjection everlastingly" (104—5) to the new king and proclaiming the jingoistic moral: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (V.vii.112-18) As many critics have... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...taste in Shakespeare. His quotations included 'the never-to-beforgotten words' which close King John ('This England, never did, nor never shall, / Lie...conqueror, / But when it first did help to wound itself), the 'imperishable' praise of England from the lips of the dying John of Gaunt in Richard II, and a... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - Drama - 2000 - 172 pages
...John's son, he sounds less like the selfish Edmond than like the prophetic John of Gaunt in Richard II: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (5. 7. 112-14, 117-18) It's a rousing... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...Napoleonic scares) : O let us pay the time but needful woe. Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the...conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the... | |
 | A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror . . . Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them!...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! At the same time, he understood, and brooded over, what was being lost. The ghost of Hamlet's father,... | |
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