 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 396 pages
...out to meet him " As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " Essex was in Ireland from the 27th of March to the 28th of September, 1599, and this passage was... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...her citizens' — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! Dover Wilson thought that Henry V was written as a direct encouragement to Essex 'to become that kind... | |
 | Mervyn Evans James - History - 1986 - 496 pages
...adulation of Essex, who had just departed for Ireland: "Were now the general of our gracious empress,/ As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,/ Bringing...How many would the peaceful city quit/ To welcome him."130 It was as "the general of our gracious empress", that the earl's heroic image as the embodiment... | |
 | James Loehlin - Drama - 2000 - 194 pages
...Essex's ill-fated expedition to put down an Irish rebellion: Were now the General of our Gracious Empress As in good time he may - from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (V.Chorus.30-4) Essex left London on 27 March, and returned on 28 September to face charges about his... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...following lines: As. by a lower but loving likelihood. Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in good time he may - from Ireland coming. Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (V.Chorus.29-34) • The empress was Elizabeth. the general was the Earl of Essex who had not yet returned... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - Drama - 1997 - 180 pages
...conquering Caesar in, As by a lower but by loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (5.cho.25-34) Syntactically (and even tactically), "Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in"... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Howard, Phyllis Rackin - Electronic books - 1997 - 276 pages
...the Earl of Essex, from a campaign against the Irish: Were now the general of our gracious Empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him! (V. Cho. 3(M) The past is here used to express a wish about the present, that Essex would achieve the... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...pretty sure when it was written: the Chorus to Act 5 says: Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in good time he may - from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! The 'General' must be the Earl of Essex, whose 'Empress', Elizabeth, had sent him on an Irish campaign... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...the fifth act of Henry I' we hear the followmg lines: Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in good time he may - from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him' 5.1 30-34) Any audience member at the Globe theatre with the remotest knowledge of contemporary affairs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 356 pages
...indisputable: As, by a lower but high-loving likelihood, Were now the General of our gracious Empress As in good time he may - from Ireland coming, Bringing...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! (5.0.29-34) 'Our gracious Empress' must be Elizabeth I, who died in 1603, and 1 AR Humphreys argues... | |
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Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland... 
