...sport myself ; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean ; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece : So minutes,...fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes ! it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his...

...sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will can; So many years ere I shall shear the fleece: So minutes,...fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his...

...but it came not a moment too soon. I. ie put in a coffin. 16 King Henry VI Part III [1455-1475] KING. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds...canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? KING HENRY VI PART III Nowhere is Shakespeare's extraordinary ability to rurn a chronicle into a drama...

...unto a quiet grave. Ah ! what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly...fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his...

...set little store by external honours. Both this and the preceding sonnet are suggested in Henry Vl's: Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds,...canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? (3 Henry VI; H, v, 42) Such 'ceremony', to use Henry V's term (iv, i, 250-304), is, from every view,...

...joys of a pastoral life in a green world far from the cares of the throne : Ah! what a life were this! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter...fear their subjects' treachery? O yes, it doth; a thousandfold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his...