...youth ! I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud honours thou hast won of me. They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh: But...that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. The last lines thus form a sentence each one of whose clauses, as it is thought and pronounced, seems...

...these dyings," now rightly understood, restore eternal life. Temporal Sequence But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. [I Henry TV, Act V, scene 4, lines 81-83] Time, however, does not stop, and the dramatic irony is evident:...

...See MC Beardsley, Aesthetics. Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (New York, 1958), pp. 144-5. Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy, But that the earthy and cold hand of death Lies on my tongue. (lHenr}IVV,w,Sl) 'Hotspur means chiefly that life is cheated by time, because our apparently great...

...very economically what he means: O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth!... But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. (V.iv. 76-82) Most editors now follow the First Quarto for the second line, which gives a simpler reading:...

...my youth. 1 better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me. They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh. But...that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. (5.4.78-85) Harry Percy, at least for us romantics, outshines Hal, as Mercutio outshines Romeo. But...

...my youth! I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud tides thou hast won of me. They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh. But...thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool, so And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy, But that the...

...thou hast won of me; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword m> flesh: — But thought's the slave ble as he is, look where he comes. Enter SALISBURY....SALISBURY. Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day; tiiat the earthy and cold hand of death Lies on my tongue: — no, Percy, thou art dust, And food for—...

...Time Must Have a Stop — was drawn from Hotspur's death speech in Henry /V: But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. She filled her journals with long, often eloquent paeans to nature, and was especially moved by the...

...chastisement? IV.1.2I-2 74 Well said well done ! 75 boy's child's 80-82 But thoughts, the slaves of lift, and life, time's fool, \ And time, that takes survey of all the world, \ Must have a stop (thoughts, life, and eventually, time itself, must all end) 82 1 could prophesy. Prophecy was associated...

...concert of such dreams has created. As Hotspur says in Shakespeare's Henry IV, "But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop." This is not, however, an ultimate end, though it may be of temporal dream and memory. Basically, the...