 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.  Elements of Criticism - Page 199by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 146 pages
...escape from embarrassment, and that is what we find in Falstaff 's answer to Prince Hal: FALSTAFF: 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,... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...of the money he has just stolen from the travelers. But Falstaff is never at a loss for an excuse: 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,... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...the Gadshill episode, Falstaff turns the tables on the accusing Prince, who robbed him in disguise: '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?' (2.... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...what starting hole canst thou now find out to hide 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 masters. Was it for me to kill the heir apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why,... | |
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