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Henry VI, Part I
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
74 |
No treachery; but want of men and money.
Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,
That here you maintain several factions,
And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,
You are disputing of your generals:
One would have lingering wars with little cost;
Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
A third thinks, without expense at all,
By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.
Awake, awake, English nobility!
Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:
Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
Of England's coat one half is cut away.
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Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4] |
Duke/Earl of Somerset |
953 |
Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
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3 |
Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4] |
Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester) |
999 |
Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;
Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.
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4 |
Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4] |
Duke/Earl of Somerset |
1001 |
Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,
That shall maintain what I have said is true,
Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.
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Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4] |
Duke/Earl of Somerset |
1020 |
By him that made me, I'll maintain my words
On any plot of ground in Christendom.
Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,
For treason executed in our late king's days?
And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?
His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;
And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.
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Henry VI, Part I
[III, 1] |
Henry VI |
1358 |
Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach
That malice was a great and grievous sin;
And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
But prove a chief offender in the same?
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7 |
Henry VI, Part I
[III, 4] |
Vernon |
1736 |
Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,
Disgracing of these colours that I wear
In honour of my noble Lord of York:
Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?
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