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Regal Ceremonies: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof, No jocound health, that Denmark drinks to-day, But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell; And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again, Respeaking earthly thunder.— H. i. 2.

As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out, The triumph of his pledge.— H. i. 4

There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangour sounds.— H. IV. PT. II. v 5.

The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn;-Give me the cups And let the kettle to the trumpet speak The trumpet to the cannoneer without Shakesprarian Dictionary. The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, Now the king drinks to Hamlet.— H. v. 5.

A garish flag, To be the aim of every dangerous shot:— R. III. iv. 4.

A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble. The flattering index of a direful pageant, One heav'd a high, to be hurl'd down below. R. III. iv.

Ill-Timed

In this, the antique and well noted face Of plain old form is much disfigured: And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, It makes the course of thought to fetch about: Startles and frights consideration; Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.— K. J. iv. 2