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...The Life of Henry the Fift by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...e Life of Henry the Fift by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Life of Henry the Fif... ...peare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Life of Henry the Fift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Sco... ...e, to the Kings honor, 51 Full fifteene Earles, and fifteene hundred Knights, 52 Six thousand and two hundred good Esquires: 53 And ... ...ees, 335 Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach 336 The Act of Order to a peopled Kingdome. 337 They haue a King, and Officers of sor... ...ackle, Ship- boyes climbing; 1053 Heare the shrill Whistle, which doth order giue 1054 To sounds confus’d: behold the threaden Sayles, 1055 ... ...ts dull Eare: and from the Tents, 1801 The Armourers accomplishing the Knights, 1802 With busie Hammers closing Riuets vp, 1803 Giue dread... ... yeerely on the Vigil feast his neighbours, 2290 And say, to morrow is Saint Crispian. 2291 Then will he strip his sleeue, and shew his skarr...

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