Hollow Crown Quiz

Another difficult one. Scroll down for the answers.

According to Shakespeare, which English kings said the following ?

1.
When I was crowned I was but nine months old.

2.
Mount, mount, my soul; thy seat is up on high
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die

3.
How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep ? O sleep, O gentle sleep
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down.

4.
When France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine.

5.
I do not ask you much;
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait
And so ungrateful you deny me that

6.
I may perceive
These cardinals trifle with me. I abhor
This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome

7.
Would not my lords return to me again
After they heard young Arthur was alive ?

8.
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

9.
I am greater than a king;
For when I was a king my flatterers
Were then but subjects; being now a subject
I have a king here to my flatterer

10.
Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son ?
‘Tis full three months since I did see him last
If any plague hang over us, ’tis he.

11.
Say, is my kingdom lost ? Why, ’twas my care.

12.
I am determined to prove a villain.

13.
My brother slew no man; his fault was thought
And yet his punishment was bitter death
Who sued to me for him ?

14.      ( One king addressing another )
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born
To signify thou cam’st to bite the world.

15.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me,
And, if I die, no soul will pity me.

 

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