 Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest. I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.  The Central Literary Magazine - Page 1001899Full view - About this book
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...apparent shame ?" he throws his querist quite out again with a most felicitous excuse. " Tuhtajf. — I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear ye, my masters : was it for me to kill the heir apparent ?" A similar instance of his instinctive skill in getting out of a scrape, is in the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...apparent shame ?" he throws his querist quite out again with a most felicitous excuse. " Fulstaff. — I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear ye, my masters : was it for me to kill the heir apparent ?" A similar instance of his instinctive skill in getting out of a scrape, is in the... | |
 | Amlin Gray - Drama - 1981 - 44 pages
...what hiding place, canst thou now find out to shield thee from this open and apparent shame? FALSTAFF. By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my lord. Was it for me to kill the heirapparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - History - 1987 - 282 pages
...answers with crafty, bold folly: Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest...I am as valiant as Hercules; but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct.... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...indeed find some starting-hole as he has been challenged to do. And of course, the fat knight does: By the lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Free trade - 1993 - 678 pages
...for the same reason; and presumably we never smile at Falstaff, because he is individual throughout. "Was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true 30 prince?" is not the remark of an automaton; therefore it is tragedy, not comedy as was hitherto... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...yet, because of our association with Falstaff also, we delight in our discomfiture. The perfecFALSTAFF By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters, was it for me to kill the heir apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why,... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - Drama - 1995 - 252 pages
...what trick hast thou now?" — Falstaff improvises an elaborate, fourteen-line response, commencing, "By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters, was it for me to kill the heir apparent?" (2.4.265-69). Later in the same play, after... | |
 | Paul Nimmo - Drama - 1996 - 72 pages
...out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame? Come, let's hear, Jack. What trick hast thou now? By the Lord, I knew ye as well as He that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters - was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...open and apparent shame? POINTZ. Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now? SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. t you are wither'd. PETRUCHIO. TJS with cares. KATHARINA. I you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince? why,... | |
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