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William Shakespeare QUOTATION: Play out the play! He and Prince Hal are interrupted in their improvised play in which each in turned played King Henry and the Prince. QUOTATION: There lives not three good men unhanged in England,
and one of The fat one is himself. QUOTATION: I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the
rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged.
It could not be else, I have drunk medicines. Speaking of Poins, who has taken his horse. QUOTATION: Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost, and
do it with To Prince Hal now that he is reconciled with the king. QUOTATION: Thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell, and
what To Prince Hal, who has exposed Falstaff’s lies about what was stolen from his pocket. QUOTATION: When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle’s
talon in the waist, I could have crept into any alderman’s thumb-ring. QUOTATION: I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. QUOTATION: The King himself is to be feared as the lion. As the lion is king of the beasts. QUOTATION: If I do grow great, I’ll grow less, for I’ll
purge and leave Imagining he may be rewarded for his claim to have killed Hotspur. QUOTATION: Give you a reason on compulsion? if reasons were as
plentiful Evading a direct answer to Poins and Hal; “reasons” would have sounded like “raisins.” QUOTATION: Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys,
hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! Happy in the prospect of a night’s festivity; “watch” means stay awake. QUOTATION: What time of day is it, lad? Addressing Prince Hal as “lad” shows the close relationship between them. QUOTATION: I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. To Bardolph, whose nose is red. QUOTATION: Well, ‘tis no matter, honor pricks me on. Yea,
but how if Quibbling on meanings of “honor” means moral obligation and fame; and “prick” means spur on and mark down as dead. QUOTATION: O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor’s
yard, Insulting Hal; “tuck” means rapier. QUOTATION: Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? QUOTATION: Do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs
about me like an old lady’s loose gown; I am withered like an old “Bate” means abate, grow thin; “apple-john” means kind of apple which was kept until the skin shrivelled. QUOTATION: What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? On an old nobleman arriving with a message for Hal. QUOTATION: If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked!
If to be Defending himself against Prince Henry’s denunciation. QUOTATION: I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of
good names were to be bought. To Prince Henry, implying they both have a bad reputation; “commodity” means goods for sale, supply. QUOTATION: Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters! A friendly insult to Prince Hal, heir to the throne. QUOTATION: I would ‘twere bed-time, Hal, and all well. Showing his fear of dying in battle. QUOTATION: What is honor? A word. What is in that word honor?
What is Reducing fame and moral obligation to mere noise. |
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