...sitting on the molehill, apart from the battle-field of Towton ; .and is as follows : — " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than...up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must...

...so: ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God! methinks, it were a happy life 2 , ' To be no better than a homely swain; * To sit upon...the year, * How many years a mortal man may live. hours in doubtfnl state of victorie, nncertainlie heaving and set. ting on both sides, ' &c. Steevens...

...so ; ' For what is in this world, but grief and woe ? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life2, ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...the year, * How many years a mortal man may live. hours in doubtful state of victorie, nncertainlie heaving and setting on both sides,' &c. Steevens...

...Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than...up the year; How many years a mortal man may live. When this is knows, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must...

...better than a homely swain; To sit upon the hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point to point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many make the hour full complete . . . How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend...

...Neid spürbar sowie ein klar ausgedrückter Wunsch, lieber Hirte als König sein zu wollen: O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. [...] Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely ! (3 Henry VI, E, 5, 2l -22 und 41 ) Während...

...breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror nor conquered. So is the equal poise of this fell war. O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than...point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish up the...

...cannot be trusted to the tell-tale day. (V, 74) [116] [On 3 Henry VI, 2.5.21 ff: King Henry. O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain] This speech is mournful and soft, exquisitely suited to the character of the king, and makes a pleasing...

...Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? О God! EGEUS. Full of vexation come I, makes the hour full complete; Hew many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the...

...Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock, So many hours must...