...blushing in his face, Not able to endure the sight of day, But, self-affrighted, tremble at his sin. Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord : For every man that Bolingbroke...

...blushing in his face, Not able to endure the sight of day, But self -affrighted tremble at his sin. Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord : For every man that Bolingbroke...

...he put into the mouth of a monarch, whose deposition was already arranged, the sentiment that — " Not all the water in the rough, rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king." And we come thus to the true and practical view of the matter, which is, that no king and no government...

...bring increasingly bad news. Richard speaks his most confident affirmation of the power of kingship: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord. For every man that Bolingbroke...

...blushing in his face, Not able to endure the sight of day. But, self-affrighted, tremble at his sin. Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord. For every man that Bolingbroke...

...longdrawn-out dissertation upon the divine right of kingship, such as -would not have discredited James I : ' Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.' Eichard, in Shakespeare's...

...inherent in himself: a part of his essential being. Like Richard, he might have said , at this juncture : "Not all the water in the rough, rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord." Nevertheless the difference...

...stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?" As Shakespeare put it many centuries later, Not all the water in the rough, rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. When a Jewish king was anointed by a priest or a prophet, he became a person permanently set apart,...

...that there are any such things as poetical ideas Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it.' Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King. Could lines be better, and could ideas be at once more trite and more false? The poverty of the ideas...

...explicit — the subject of law, theology, legend, and myth. Its apogee was heralded by Shakespeare's Richard II: "Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king!" Its hold on the imagination could be seen in the paradox that it was reaffirmed even by the death of...