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... is even tolerable to us ? " Wherein is he good , but to taste sack and drink it ? wherein neat and cleanly , but to carve a capon and eat it ? wherein cunning , but in craft ? wherein crafty , but [ xii ] FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV.
... is even tolerable to us ? " Wherein is he good , but to taste sack and drink it ? wherein neat and cleanly , but to carve a capon and eat it ? wherein cunning , but in craft ? wherein crafty , but [ xii ] FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV.
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... sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon , that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know . What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day ? Unless hours were cups of ...
... sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon , that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know . What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day ? Unless hours were cups of ...
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... Sack and Sugar ] It was the habit of Elizabethan topers to mix sugar with their wine . Falstaff's favourite beverage was clearly a Spanish wine resembling sherry - he calls it " sherris - sack , " 2 Hen . IV , IV , iii , 95 sweetened ...
... Sack and Sugar ] It was the habit of Elizabethan topers to mix sugar with their wine . Falstaff's favourite beverage was clearly a Spanish wine resembling sherry - he calls it " sherris - sack , " 2 Hen . IV , IV , iii , 95 sweetened ...
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... sack be my poison : when a jest is so forward , and afoot too ! I hate it . Enter GADSHILL , BARDOLPH and PETO with him GADS . Stand . FAL . So I do , against my will . POINS . O , ' t is our setter : I know his voice . Bar- dolph ...
... sack be my poison : when a jest is so forward , and afoot too ! I hate it . Enter GADSHILL , BARDOLPH and PETO with him GADS . Stand . FAL . So I do , against my will . POINS . O , ' t is our setter : I know his voice . Bar- dolph ...
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... sack , boy . Ere I lead this life long , I'll sew nether stocks and 98 parcel ] items . 107 Rivo ! ] An exclamation , probably of Spanish origin , common among Elizabethan topers . 111 nether stocks ] stockings . 108 mend them and foot ...
... sack , boy . Ere I lead this life long , I'll sew nether stocks and 98 parcel ] items . 107 Rivo ! ] An exclamation , probably of Spanish origin , common among Elizabethan topers . 111 nether stocks ] stockings . 108 mend them and foot ...
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anon Archbishop of York BARD Bardolph blood BLUNT Bolingbroke brother Colevile cousin Davy dead death devil dost doth Douglas drink Earl Earl of Fife Earl of March Eastcheap Exeunt Exit faith father fear fellow Folios friends Gadshill give GLEND Glendower grace hanged Harry Harry Percy hath head hear heart heaven Holinshed honour horse HOST hostess Hotspur infra Jack John of Lancaster justice knave LADY lord majesty Master Shallow merry Mortimer MoWB never night noble Northumberland peace Percy PETO PIST Pistol play POINS pray Prince of Wales prithee Quarto rascal Re-enter rogue sack SCENE Shakespeare SHAL Shrewsbury Sir Dagonet Sir John Sir John Falstaff Sirrah speak stand supra sweet sword tell thee there's thine thou art thou hast tongue Westmoreland wilt Worcester word Zounds
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Page 74 - O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 77 - ... the book of fate ; And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent (Weary of solid firmness) melt itself Into the sea ! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Page 21 - Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Page 78 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 73 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish...
Page 75 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 19 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes...
Page 113 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 133 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Page 133 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is in that word honour ? what is that honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o