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Crown, Regal: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O polish'd perturbation! golden care! That keeps the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night! sleep with it now! Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound, Snores out the watch of night.— H. IV. PT. 1. iv. 4.

A thousand flatteries sit within thy crown, Whose compass is no bigger than thy head; And, yet incaged in so small a verge, The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.— R. II. ii. 1

Do but think How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. H. IV. PT. 111. 1. 2. Heaven knows, my son, By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways, I met this crown; and I myself know well, How troublesome it sat upon my head. H. IV. PT. II. iv.— H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4

I spake unto the crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it: The care on thee depending, Hath fed upon the body of my father; Therefore thou, best of gold, art worst of gold; Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in med'cine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd Hast eat thy bearer up. Thus, my most royal liege, Accusing it, I put it on my head; To try with it, as with an enemy, That had before my face murder'd my father,- The quarrel of a true inheritor.— H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4