Quotations for Henry king and hero

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1 A true lover of the Christian Church
1 His addiction was to courses vain, His companies unletter’d, rude, his hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports…
1 Take heed… How you awake our sleeping sword of war… In the name of God
1 My learned lord…Justly and religiously unfold why the Salique law they have in France bar us in our claim?
2 Henry:May I with right and conscience make this claim? Canterbury: The sin upon my head…
2 We are no tyrant but a Christian king.
3 But this lies all within the will of God to whom I do appeal; and in whose name tell you the Dauphin I am coming.
3 For many a thousand widows… And some are yet ungotten and unborn that shall have cause to curse the Dauphin’s scorn.
4 never was monarch better feare’d and loved…
4 We carry not a heart with us that grows not in fair consent with ours.
5 Henry: O let us yet be merciful. Cambridge: and yet punish too. Henry: if little faults be not winked at how shall we stretch our eye when capital crimes apear before us?
5 Cambridge: I do confess my fault and do submit to your highness’ mercy. Henry: The mercy that was quick in us but late by your own counsel is suppress’d and killed.
7 God so graciously hath brought to light this dangerous treason…
7 Let us deliver our puissance into the hand of God.
8 Once more into the breach dear Friends or close up the wall with our English dead.
9 On, on you noblest English
9 Cry God For Harry, England and Saint George.
9 Whose limbs were made in England
9 You are worth your breeding
9 For as I am a soldier, a name that in my thoughts becomes me best.
9 You men of Harfleur, take pity of your town, your people; if not… Will you yield and this avoid?
10 Use mercy to them all.
10 Fluellen: One is like to be executed for robbing a church… If your majesty know the man? Henry: We shall have all such offenders cut off.
10 Nothing compelled, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused.
11 With cheerful semblance… That every wretch plucks comfort… Thawing cold fear.
11 Behold the royal captain of this ruin’d band walking from watch to watch and tent to tent, bids them good morrow and calls them brothers, friends…
12 I think the king is but a man as I am
12 His fears be of the same relish as ours
13 His cause being just and his quarrel honourable
13 The king is not bound to answer for the particular endings of his soldiers
14 The king would not be ransomed.
15 Upon the king… Let us lay our lives, our souls, our debts our wives… Our sins. O hard condition.
15 I am a king and I know … [a king does not] sleep so soundly as does the slave.
15 Such a wretch… Little wots, what watch a king keeps to maintain the peace.
16 Lord, think not upon the fault my father Richard made in compassing the throne… I have five hundred poor in yearly pay, who twice a day, hold up to heaven, to pardon blood;
  and I have built two chantries where the priests sing for Richard’s soul. More will I do…
17 I am not covetous for gold but … Honour
17 The fewer men the greater share of honour
17 He that outlives this day… Will show his wounds… Names familiar as household words …Shall be remembered, shall be my brother
17 And Gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here.
19 O God thy arm was here, and not to us but to thy arm alone ascribe we all.
19 …Here was a royal fellowship of death
19 …teach a soldier terms such as will enter at a lady’s ear
20 I speak to thee plain soldier
20 if thou canst love a fellow of this temper… That never looks in his glass for love of anything he sees there.
21 take me, take a soldier, take a king
21 And Kate, when France is mine and I am yours then yours is France and you are mine.
21 Good Kate, mock me mercifully.
22 I was created with a stubborn outside, an aspect of iron and when I come to woo ladies I fright them.
22 Old age can do no more spoil upon my face
22 Come your answer in broken music, for thy voice is music and thy English broken.
23 Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings… you and I are the makers of manners.

 


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