Shakespeare.

I'll send some holy bishop to entreat;
For God forbid so many simple souls
Should perish by the sword.

2 HENRY VI. iv. 4.

See where his grace stands 'tween two clergymen !— Two props of virtue for a christian prince :

And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,

True ornaments to know a holy man.

RICHARD III. iii. 7.

He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Divinely bent to meditation:

And in no worldly suit would he be mov'd,

To draw him from his holy exercise.

RICHARD III. iii. 7.

And hath given countenance to his speech,
With almost all the holy vows of Heaven.

HAMLET, i. 3.

And, like a traitor to the name of God,

*

Didst break that vow.

RICHARD III. i. 4.

Both they, and we, perusing o'er these notes,
May know wherefore we took the sacrament,
And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.

Once did I lay in ambush for

KING JOHN, v. 2.

your

life;

A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul :
But, ere I last receiv'd the sacrament,

I did confess it.

RICHARD II. i. 1.

Great God of Heaven, say Amen to all!

And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,

We will unite the white rose and the red :-
Smile, Heaven, upon this fair conjunction !

RICHARD III. v. 4.

Shakespeare.

MARTIAL SENTENCES IN SHAKESPEARE,

ALL

TREATING OF WAR AND BATTLE, IN WHICH THE NAME OF GOD IS REVERENTLY AND RELIGIOUSLY INTRODUCED, ASCRIBING HUMAN SUCCESS TO THE DEITY.

The peace of Heaven is theirs, that lift their swords
In such a just and charitable war.—

KING JOHN, ii. 1.

In God's name, and the king's, say who thou art,
And why thou com'st, thus knightly clad in arms :
Speak truly, on thy knighthood, and thy oath;
And so defend thee, Heaven, and thy valour!

RICHARD II. i. 3.

Whose high deeds, and whose great name in arms,
Holds from all soldiers chief majority,

And military title capital,

Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ.

1 HENRY IV. iii. 2.

Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them;
And God befriend us, as our cause is just.

1 HENRY IV. v. 1.

Shakespeare.

Three knights upon our party slain to-day;
A noble earl, and many a creature else,
Had been alive this hour,

If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne
Betwixt our armies true intelligence.

1 HENRY IV. v. 5.

Strike up your drums, pursue the scatter'd stray;
Heaven, and not we, hath safely fought to-day.

2 HENRY IV. iv. 2.

How

you awake the sleeping sword of war;
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed:
For never two such kingdoms did contend,
Without much fall of blood.

HENRY V. i. 2.

Follow your spirit; and upon this charge,
Cry," God for Harry! England! and St. George!"

HENRY V. iii. 1.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts!
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them !—Not to-day, O Lord!
O not to-day, think not upon the fault

My father made in compassing the crown.

HENRY V. iv. 1.

Shakespeare.

God's arm strike with us! 't is a fearful odds.
God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:
If we no more meet, till we meet in Heaven,

Then, warriors all, adieu!

HENRY V. iv. 3.

Now, soldiers, march away ;—

And how Thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

The day* is yours!

HENRY V. iv. 3.

Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!

Go we in procession to the village :

HENRY V. iv. 7.

And be it death proclaimed through our host,
To boast of this, or take that praise from God,
Which is His only.

He was a king bless'd of the King of kings :
Unto the French the dreadful judgment day
So dreadful will not be, as was his sight.

* Agincourt.

1 HENRY VI. i. 1.