 | Nigel Rapport - Individualism - 2003 - 308 pages
...just fought and slain the rebel (with kingly ambitions), Harry Percy, the Prince of Wales, remarks: Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When...a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; 53 But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough ... (The Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Works,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 272 pages
...art dust, And food for - [Dies] Prince For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart. Hl-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible... | |
 | James Zager, William Shakespeare - 2005 - 70 pages
...of death Lies on my tongue. No, Percy, thou art dust, And food for — (HOTSPUR dies.) PRINCE HAL. For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!...bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears the dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible... | |
 | Robert Fletcher - Equality - 2007 - 208 pages
...just fought and slain the rebel (with kingly ambitions), Harry Percy, the Prince of Wales remarks: Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When...bound; But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough: This is the same contrast — between the circumscribed, seemingly insignificant human body... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 246 pages
...chivalry upon him in his generous tribute to the dead Hotspur: Fare thee well, great heart. Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this...bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. (5.4.89-95) Hal's detractors... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...food for — [Dies. PRINCE HENRY. For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart! — Ill-weaved 0 eartb Is room enough: — this earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If... | |
 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007
...immortal, and thus tacitly identifying himself with the deathless kingship. To the dead Hotspur he says: When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom...bound, But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. If thou wert sensible... | |
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When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough : — this earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. 
