Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The purple testament of bleeding war.

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

And my large kingdom for a little grave,

A little little grave, an obscure grave.

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Gave

His body to that pleasant country's earth,

And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,

Under whose colours he had fought so long.

King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.