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" Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with... "
Works, Containing His Plays and Poems: To which is Added a Glossary - Page 194
by William Shakespeare - 1797
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Report: Printed by Order of Parliament

Canada. Commissioners of the Intercolonial Railway - 1870 - 272 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds : That...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.' ' It is pretended, again, that the Company-promoters would be hardly...
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Shaksperean Fly-leaves and Jottings

Henry Thomas Hall - 1871 - 288 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds : That...England, that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing...
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The Tragedy of King Richard II.

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 216 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with sh.ime, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds : That...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing...
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Shakspeare Gems

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 344 pages
...sea ; Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds ; That...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Grief. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, Which show like...
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King Richard the Second

William Shakespeare - 1981 - 292 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing...
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Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theatre

James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...triumphant Sea, Whose rocky Shore beats back the envious Siege Of watery Neptune, is bound in with Shame, With INKY BLOTS, and ROTTEN PARCHMENT BONDS. That...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful Conquest of itself. 253 This is such a general Reflection upon my dear Country, and the whole...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of wat'ry Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. (II, 1, 51-66) England as the "teeming womb" begins to replace the cosmological...
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History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

George Jellinek - 1994 - 436 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing...
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Channel Tunnel Visions, 1850-1945

Keith Wilson - 1994 - 276 pages
...sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That...England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself . . . Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 Introduction A tunnel under...
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