...expectation expressed by Shakespeare in the Prologue to Act V. of Henry V. in these often quoted lines : " Were now the general of our gracious empress — As...How many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him ! " But Essex and Southampton were not yet plotting treason, and Shakespeare hardly needed patronage....

...conquering Csesar in: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, 3C As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...cause Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;— 3* As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the King of England's stay at home; The emperor's coming...

...sort deuised for his welcomming home." — Holinshed. Were now the general of our gracious empress, 30 As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...cause, Did they this Harry. Now in London place him; 35 As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the King of England's stay at home; The emperor 's...

...on the Earl of Essex's approaching return to the city from the obstinately disputed war in Ireland. Were now the general of our gracious empress (As in...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ? The story of the play Shakespeare derived from Holinshed's chronicle, and in the main current of...

...case of Henry V. In Date. the Prologue to the fifth act occur the following lines: As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! The general here referred to was the Earl of Essex, who left for Ireland on April 15, 1599, and returned...

...expos'd them." The only internal evidence as to the date of the writing occurs in the Chorus to Act V: "Were now the general of our gracious empress (As...many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him !" This passage undoubtedly refers to the Earl of Essex, who set forth on his expedition against the...

...plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth, and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...much more (and much more cause) Did they this Harry.' Moreover, if this play were the first one at the Globe, how appropriate would be those lines of the...

...Caesar in ; As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, 80 As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing...cause, Did they this Harry. Now in London place him; 35 As yet the lamentation of the French Invites the King of England's stay at home, — The Emperor's...

...victory of Agincourt - 'Behold . . . how London doth pour out her citizens' — As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious...many would the peaceful city quit To welcome him! Dover Wilson thought that Henry V was written as a direct encouragement to Essex 'to become that kind...

...Henry V he gave expression to the Londoner's adulation of Essex, who had just departed for Ireland: "Were now the general of our gracious empress,/ As...How many would the peaceful city quit/ To welcome him."130 It was as "the general of our gracious empress", that the earl's heroic image as the embodiment...