...never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself Naught shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. (5. 7. 112-14, 117-18) It's a rousing conclusion to a play in which the illegitimate son of a legitimate...

...national emergency: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror . . . Come the three corners of the world in arms And we...make us rue If England to itself do rest but true! At the same time, he understood, and brooded over, what was being lost. The ghost of Hamlet's father,...

...quoted, as parallel to the present passage, the closing lines in King John, where the Bastard says, ' Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them.' But, even in this passage, what the ' three corners ' are, is very doubtful ; it has been even suggested...

...a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. And it certainly seems that Shakspeare's...

...itself. Now these her princes are come home Faulconbridge, Robert Ferdinand, King of Navarre again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (v.vii) The Bastard appears in The...

...heroes and villains, but one heroine, England; one tragic theme, treachery; and one moral — that "nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true" [John v.vii. 117-8]. Shakespeare glorified the Tudor dictatorship because he saw that it had rescued...

...conqueror, / But when it first did help to woimd itself. / Now these her princes are come home again / Come the three corners of the world in arms /And we shall shock theml Nought shall make us rue / If England to itself do restbut true! [V.vii. 110-18] 6 RICARDO III...

...Shakespeare's talent in leaving us with an aftertaste. The Bastard's famous concluding speech ('Naught shall make us rue / If England to itself do rest but true') certainly leaves him as the patriotic hero. This conclusion is not as bellicose as some of his earlier...

...a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. (v. vii. 1 12) This is spoken by the Bastard, Faulconbridge, the bluff, humorous, critical, warm-hearted...

...a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. England's suffering has apparently opened the Bastard's eyes just as it opened Robin's in the Downfall....