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"O, Harry, thou hast robbd me of my youth!"
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Henry IV, Part 1So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, — Henry IV, Part 1
"So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify mens hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering oer my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off."
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Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1
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Henry IV, Part 1 is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in the mid-1590s and first published in quarto in 1598. It was composed in the later years of the reign of Elizabeth I, when questions of succession and political stability were prominent. Set in England in the early 1400s during the reign of Henry IV, the play depicts rebellion against the crown alongside the development of Princ
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