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6. I conjure you by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation ùp;

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown
down;

Though castles topple on their warders' heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the

treasure

Of nature's germins tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken,-answer me
To what I ask you.

7. Ruin seize thee, rùthless king!

Confusion on thy banners wait!

8. Accursed be the faggots that blaze at his feet, Where his heart shall be thrown, ere it ceases to beat!

9.

-Beshrew thy very heart!

I did not think to be so sad to-night,

As this hath made me.

10. Perish the man whose mind is backward now!

11. And when I mount, alive may I not light, If I be a traitor or unjustly fight!

12.

-Heaven bear witness;

And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,
Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!

Accusation:

1. Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true: That Mowbray hath receiv'd eight thousand nobles,

In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers;
The which he hath detain'd for base employments,
Like a false tràitor and injurious villain;
That all the trèasons, for these eighteen years,
Complotted and concocted in this land,

Fetch from false Mowbray their chief spring and head.

2. And thou, sly hypocrite! who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty, who more than thou

Once fawn'd and cring'd, and servilely ador'd
Heaven's awful monarch?

Assertion, declaration, affirmation, assurance:

1. As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true. 2. Yès, Athenians, I repeat it, you yourselves are the contrivers of your own ruin.

3. I tell you though you, though all the world, though an angel from heaven, should declare the truth of it, I could not believe it.

4. When I behold those manly feelings darkened by ignorance, and inflamed by prejudice, and blinded by bigotry, I will not hesitate to assert, that no monarch ever came to the throne of these realms, in such a spirit of direct, and predetermined, and predeclared hostility to the opinions and wishes of the people.

5. And by the honourable tomb he swears,

That stands upon thy royal grandsire's bones,
And by the royalties of both your bloods,
Currents that spring from one most gracious head,
And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,
And by the worth and honour of himself,-
Comprising all that may be sworn or said;
His coming hither hath no farther scope
Than for his lineal royalties, and to beg
Enfranchisement immediate on his knees:
Which on thy royal party granted once,
His glittering arms he will commend to rust,
His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
To faithful service of your majesty.

6. Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe,
What thou hast said to me.

1.

2.

Threatening and warning:

-If thou speak'st false,

Upon the next trèe shalt thou hang alive
Till famine clìng thee.

-But, sirrah, henceforth

Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:

Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,
Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
As will displease you.

3. Return to thy dwelling, all lonely return;

For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood,

And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing
brood.

4. And if you crown him, let me prophesy-
The blood of English shall manure the ground,
And future ages groan for this foul act;
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,-
Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny,

Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd
The field of Golgotha.

Denial, contradiction, refusal:

1. Thou dost belìe him, Percy, thou dost belìe him; He never did encounter with Glendower.

2.

Cassius. I am a soldier, I,

Older in practice, abler than yourself
To make conditions.

Brutus. Go tò: you're not, Cassius.
Cas. I àm.

Bru. I say you are nòt.

3. No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man, Nor no man's lord: I have no name, no title,— No, not that name was given me at the font,— But 'tis usurped.

4.

-I'll keep them all;

-he shall not have a Scot of them: No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not.

Earnest intreaty, appeal, remonstrance, expostulation:

1. O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts!
-Not to-dày.

Oh! not to-day,-think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown!

2. A`rm, àrm, you heavens! against these perjur'd kings!

Á widow cries, be husband to me, heavens!

Let not the hours of this ungodly day

Wear out the day in peàce; but ere sunset,
Set armed discord, 'twixt these perjur'd kings!
Hear me, oh heàr me!

3. Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;

Be now the father, and propose a son;

Hear your own dignity so much profan'd;
See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted;
Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And in your power so silencing your son.

Exhortation, invitation, temperate command:

1. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

2.

Or close the wall up with our English dèad.

-Stoop, Romans, stoop, And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood; Then walk ye forth, even to the market-place; And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads, Let's all cry peace! freedom! and liberty! 3. Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come! Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose lip, and the dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly! With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine,-I may not stay.

4. Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Approach, my Ariel; come!

5. Go, make thyself like to a nymph o' the sea;
Be subject to no eye but mine; invisible

To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in 't: hence, with diligence!

Admiration and adoration:

1. The stars are fòrth,—the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! 2. These are thy glorious works, Parent of Good, Almighty! Thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous
then!

Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens,
To us invisible, or dimly seen

Midst these thy lowest works!

3. Thou glorious mirror! where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests.

4. And I have lov'd thee, Ocean! and my joy

Of youthful sports, was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward;—from a boy
I wantoned with thy breakers,-they to me
Were a delight.

5. And this is in the night! Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be

A sharer in thy fierce and far delight,-
A portion of the tempest and of thee!

How the lit lake shines!-a phosphoric sea;-
And the big rain comes dancing to the earth!

6. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!

7. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the

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