...sentiments might well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the poet has given him :— " O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain " &e. It is more than probable, that the poet had not seen his royal brother's verses, yet how admirably...

...insertion of a part of the soliloquy which Henry is made to utter in the midst of the battle — ." Methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain." The speech is characteristic, and may be read as an illustrative specimen of Shakspeare's mode of amplifying...

...That things ill got had ever bad success ? I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind. • : Alas ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain; — So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and yeai*, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would...

...lust." STEEVENS. 7 Stuff up his lust, as MINUTES FILL UP HOURS;] So, in King Henry VI. Part III. : " — to see the minutes how they run, " How many make the hour full-complete." MALONE. s The Roman lord MAECHETH to Lucrece' bed.] Thus the quarto 1594. The edition...

...beast, and all the vegetable reign. Shakspeare thns describes the pleasures of a shepherd's life :— O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better timn a hoineK swain . To sit upon a hill as I do now ; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,...

...this world, but grief and wo? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, 234 THIRD PART OF Act 11. ' To be no better than a homely swain ; * To sit upon...many make the hour full complete, * How many hours brinff about the day, * How many days will finish up the year, * How many years a mortal man may live....

...recommending that economy 'iftime, s. beautifully pourtrayed by the great bard, wr have jus> quoted. " O God .' methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, Tu carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes as they run : flaw many make...

...grief and wo? * O God ! methinks, it were a happy li:'e, * To be no better than a homely/swain ; * To sit upon a hill, as I do now, * To carve out dials...many make the hour full complete, * How many hours brinff about the day, * How many days will finish up the year, * FIovv many years a mortal man may...

...dead ! if God's good will were so . For what is in this world, but grief and wo? * 0 God ! melhinks, it were a happy life. To be no better than a homely swain ; ' To sit upon a lull, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they...

...well be supposed to utter those congenial lines which the poet has given him: — О God ! mi-thinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely awain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see...