The TyBurn Tree
the lives & times of JoHnny Haddo ~
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
we live to tread on kings ~
I cannot read them now.
O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
An if we live, we live to tread on kings;
If die, brave death, when princes die with us!
Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just....
click here for Henry IV _
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ttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/1henryiv/1henryiv.5.2.html
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