 | 1876 - 590 pages
...pitiful rascals. "Fal. — Tut, tut ! good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder : they'll fill a pit as well as better ; — tush, man ; mortal men, mortal men. " W estmorcitind. — Ay; but, Sir John, methinks they arc exceedingly poor and bare, — too beggarly.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...such pitiful rascals." "Tut, tut," answers Falstaff, " good enough to toss ; food for powder ; they'll fill a pit as well as better; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men." 1 His second excuse is his unfailing spirit. If ever there was a man who could jabber, it is he. Insults... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1957 - 214 pages
...so many 'pitiful rascals': 'Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better : tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.' Once again, we shall avoid a simple reaction to the spirit of this utterance. Falstaff himself will... | |
 | William Empson - Country life in literature - 1950 - 312 pages
...such pitiful rascals. FAL. Tut, tut ; good enough to toss ; food for powder, food for powder ; they'll fill a pit as well as better ; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. Mortal conveys both ' all men are in the same boat, all equal betore God ' and ' all you want is slaughter.'... | |
 | Amlin Gray - Drama - 1981 - 44 pages
...pitiful rascals. FALSTAFF. Tut tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. HAL. Sirrah, make haste. Hotspur is already in the field. You stay too long. (He goes off.) FALSTAFF.... | |
 | William Empson - Drama - 1986 - 262 pages
...anything? What is recalled is the most unbeatable of all Falstaff's retorts to Henry - "they'll fit a pit as well as better; tush, man. mortal men, mortal men". Falstaff has just boasted that he took bribes to accept such bad recruits ("I have misused the King's... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling - Literary Criticism - 403 pages
...act IV, scene ii, line 72: "Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better; tush, man, mortal men, mortal men." 165. Cervantes, Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617); traditional Byzantine novel with complicated... | |
 | James Howe - Buddhism and literature - 1994 - 290 pages
...the quality of his men: that they are good enough to be "food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as / better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men" (4.2.65-67). He describes war to the prince from the point of view of a plebeian soldier, not of a... | |
 | Stuart Hutchinson - American wit and humor - 1994 - 144 pages
...I did never see such pitiful rascals. Fal. Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better: tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. In both moments under consideration events have reached a tragic state. People are starving to death... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...pitiful rascals. FALSTAFF Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, food for powder, they'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. WESTMORLAND Ay, but Sir John, methinks they are 47 blown (i) short-winded; (2) swollen the positive... | |
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Tut, tut ! good enough to toss'; food for powder, food for powder ; they'll fill a pit, as well as better : tush, man, mortal men, mortal men. 
