Bartlette's Quotations: King Henry VI. Part II.

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1	Main chance.	Act i. Sc. 1.
2	Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face.	Sc. 3.
3	Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.	Act iii. Sc. 1.
4	What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.	Sc. 2.
5	He dies, and makes no sign.	Sc. 3.
6	Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation.	Ibid.
7	The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.	Act iv. Sc. 1.
8	There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.	Sc. 2.
9	Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?	Ibid.
10	Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.	Ibid.
11	Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.	Sc. 7.