...thence. Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world bur grief and woe? О RCY. I will not sing. HOTSPUR. 'Tis the next way to...drawn, I'll away within these two hours; and so, c see the minutes how they run, — How many makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings about...

...shepherd: 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...carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run — How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours brings about...

...generalized feeling that results is phrased by King Henry in a fine speech of Shakespearian pastoralism : O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better...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 hours...

...retyred and gyven to studdy'. 21 Robert Parsons and the plight of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian king O God! Methinks it were a happy life To be no better...carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. (3 Henry VI i.^.21-^) 22 These are the words of Shakespeare's first Lancastrian...

...especially important, because it features Henry VI as a Spenserian author-figure, the shepherdking: 'O god! methinks it were a happy life / To be no better...now, / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point' (3 Henry VI 2. 5. 21-4). 2I But Richard II warrants close attention as well; the King's commitment...