Click on the verses to see them in context. Shakespeare's plays are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
.
Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots? Sit, worthy friends:--my lord is often thus, Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air, Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, O, do not slander him, for he is kind. Courage to make's love known?