 This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall...  Elegant extracts in poetry - 第661页作者：Elegant extracts - 1816全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | George Wilson Knight, Patricia M. Ball - 1958 - 336 页
...coming home of her revolted barons, that is, unity; and truth to herself. Here is our final speech: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (v. vii. 1 12) This is spoken by the Bastard, Faulconbridge, the bluff, humorous, critical, warm-hearted... | |
 | Jeffrey Knapp - 2004 - 300 页
...after John's death, the Bastard sketches out the heroic vista of a self-sufficient English nation: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. England's suffering has apparently opened the Bastard's eyes just as it opened Robin's in the Downfall.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 页
...BASTARD. O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our grefs. — This did not lie there when I went to bed. MARCUS naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. [Exeun . sail, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW... | |
 | R. A. Foakes, Reginald Anthony Foakes - 2003 - 242 页
...momentarily his old self again for the play's final lines, with its rousing patriotic appeal: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them! The Bastard, 'Brave soldier' (5.6.13), is surely meant to be in armour here, and resume his image as... | |
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