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- From: pmccurdy@alcalde.Corp.Sun.COM (Patrick McCurdy)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Getting an accurate quote
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:56:00 GMT
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- In article kgh@agate.berkeley.edu, danhua@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Hua) writes:
- >Hello Folks! I was wondering if anyone knows the
- >complete quote which includes these words (about
- >England) ".... this happy breed of men,...this land
- >of poets,.. this realm, this land, this England." I might
- >have misquoted somewhat. Oh, since I also have about 800
- >articles to catch up, could the person who knows send the
- >info to me too? (in addition to the newsgroup)).
- >
- >Thanks alot in advance.
- >
- >
- >Dan
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- RICHARD II
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- This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
- This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
- This other Eden, demi-paradise,
- This fortress built by Nature for herself
- Against infection and the hand of war,
- This happy breed of men, this little world,
- This precious stone set in the silver sea,
- Which serves it in the office of a wall,
- Or as a moat defensive to a house,
- Against the envy of less happier lands,
- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
- This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
- Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
- Renowned for their deeds as far from home,--
- For Christian service and true chivalry,--
- As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
- Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son:
- This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,
- 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 shame,
- With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds:
- That England, that was wont to conquer others,
- Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
- II.i.40
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- Patrick McCurdy "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
- Operations Analyst most of them pick themselves up and hurry off
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- --Winston Churchill
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