Re: quotes quiz (fwd)

[Dave Montuori <damont@wolfstar.com>]

Poster: Dave Montuori <damont@wolfstar.com>


On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Dick Eney wrote:

> 2) My kingdom for a horse.
> Richard III Plantagenet, King of England (but not for much longer...)

Well, attributed to him by Shakespeare at any rate.

> 4)Squire Henry means to play God
> got me on that one.

Isn't that from _Henry IV Part I_?

> 10) Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my King, he would not
> have given me over in my grey hairs.
> The last Cardinal of England, whose name escapes me for the moment; the
> King he had served (with less diligence than he pretended) was Henry VIII.

The name "Wolsey" springs to mind.

> 11) Will no man rid me of this meddlesome priest?
> Henry III Plantagenet, of Thomas a Becket.  He got three takers.

Henry II (two), I think.

> 12)Kill them all, and God will know his own.
> St. Dominic, explaining how to deal with the difficulty of telling French
> speaking Provencal Cathars (bad) from French speaking Provencal Catholics
> (good).

I'd always heard this attributed to Simon de Montfort, military leader of
the Albigensian Crusade. Sure made it easier to handle resistance to the
conquest of Languedoc (which the Montforts couldn't make stick).

> 14) Let the boy win his spurs.
> Henry III Plantagenet, being told that the division commanded by his son
> Edward (aw, you know -- the Black Prince) was being hotly pressed by the
> French at Crecy.

*Edward* III, almost 100 years after Henry3, and father to TBP.

> 17) Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.
> Marcus Antonius, over the body of Julius Caesar

Again, as attributed by Shakespeare.

Evan


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