...Tamburlaine, v, 3, 217), may formally hold court; Shakespeare describes the scene in famous lines: And nothing can we call our own but death, And that...Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings How some have been...

...speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; ... Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Wliich serves aspaste and cover to our bones. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad...

...frenzied, but withal so affectionate soul. Though the body did not go to Westminster immediately, his tomb, That small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones the effigy clasping the hand of his youthful consort, was already prepared there, with 'rich gilding...

...nostalgia for himself, Richard positions not only himself, but all kings, as inevitably doomed: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed All murdered. (III.2. 155-60) If one takes a long enough...

...bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? 150 Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that...Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been...

...Whereupon this prodigal prince aligns himself with the figures in Sackville's ghostly procession: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been despos'd,, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their...

...the Earl of Wiltshire. Richard's reaction is to sink on the beach in a self-indulgent funk: For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos'd, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives,...

...been conveniently neglected." (PRINCE CHARLES, ON GEORGE III.) NINE ROYAL ASSASSINATIONS For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories...Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, All murdered.... William Shakespeare Richard II 1. EDMUND...

...his apprehension over Kyongjong. CHAPTER 5 Yongjo's Tragedy: The Prince of Mournful Thoughts ... let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the...Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed — All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds...

...Pero mejor así, y reconocidamente despreciado, Que despreciado igualmente y adulado, que es peor. And nothing can we call our own but death; / And that...Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. / For God's sake let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings: / How some have...