 | Hans Speier - 1989 - 381 pages
...memorably expressed in Falstaff s "catechism" setting forth his belief that life is preferable to honor. What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? he that died a'Wednesday. Does he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. It is insensible, then? Yea. To the dead. But... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 pages
...obtained. This is subjectio (Fontanier, p. 374; Lanham; Lausberg) or hypophora (Lanham). Ex: 'FALSTAFF: What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No ... [etc.]' (Shakespeare, Henry iv, Ft 1, 5.1.135)... | |
 | Peter N. Dunn - 1993 - 364 pages
...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 that word,...honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday" (Henry IV, Part I, vi). Sir John Falstaff, of course, is by no means the moral voice... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...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 a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, — that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of...dissolution and thaw; — it was a miracle to scap o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tie insensible, then? yea, to the dcaJ. Dut... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli, William Barclay Allen, Hadley Arkes - 1997 - 196 pages
...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 a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Does he hear it? No. Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, 10241 Henry IV, Part 1 0 gentlemen! the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...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 that word, honour? Air. 3790 Henry IV, Part 2 1 am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. 3791 Henry IV, Part 2 Doth... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...terms / He questioned me. William Shakespeare, 1596-7, Henry IV, Part J, I. Hi. 45 39:53 [Falstaff ] What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! William Shakespeare, 1596-7, Henry IV, Part 1, V. i. 133 39:54 ROSALIND [asking Celia ten questions... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...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 that word...— a trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will... | |
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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... 
