Both Uses of
ignoble
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
- Here is the head of that ignoble traitor, The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.†
Scene 3.5 *
- …the throne majestical, The scepter'd office of your ancestors, Your state of fortune and your due of birth, The lineal glory of your royal house, To the corruption of a blemish'd stock: Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,— Which here we waken to our country's good,— The noble isle doth want her proper limbs; Her face defac'd with scars of infamy, Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants, And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion.†
Scene 3.7
Definition:
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(ignoble) dishonorable or lacking nobility