 | Wolfgang Iser - 1993 - 254 pages
...Another view of the feudal world is to be gained from Falstaff's remarks on honor, prior to the battle: Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks me on. Yea, but...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?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 884 pages
...day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks 13o me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I...Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is that was reasonable at his hands to be 1 M Say thy prayers, and farcwell. Hal's required, and seemed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...PRINCE HENRY. Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit. SIR JOHN FALSTAFP. Ti* not due yet; I would be loth d 3 3@ 3 that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?... | |
 | Susan L. Fischer - 1996 - 194 pages
...external honor, whose fatuous essence is well spoofed by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1: Can honour set a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...What is in that word? Honour. What is that honour? Air. (1.5.130-34) There is a sense in which Falstaff 's airy definition of honor is borne out literally... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli, William Barclay Allen, Hadley Arkes - 1997 - 196 pages
...what need I be so forward with him that calls not on me." Still, he offers, " 'tis no matter, honor pricks me on": Yea, but how if honour prick me off...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?... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...recruiting methods, and we may laugh at the pragmatism of his soliloquy on honour: 'Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...What is in that word "honour"? What is that "honour"? Air' (5.1.131-5). We can hardly fail to enjoy his genius for self-preservation as he plays dead in... | |
 | Jorge Arditi - 1998 - 334 pages
...as we learn later, "Why, thou owest God a death." Left alone, Falstaff reflects on that last remark. 'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before...What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 340 pages
...Well, 'tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? 130 How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm?...What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it?... | |
 | Paul Corrigan - 2000 - 260 pages
...alone.] Falstaff '71? not due yet: I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be sofonvard with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter;...honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away thegriefofa wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...'catechism' rejects such abstract ideals for the comfortable solidities of life and limb: Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it?... | |
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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.... 
