 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...Falstaff's boast of dignity. He takes a ludicrously materialistic, concrete view of this abstract concept: Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take...wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. He is right, of course, if you grant his premiss, but you must deny his major, for no word has any... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...discernment, and the profoundest skill in the nature of man. (Hotspur) (Prince Hal) *i*J : $±*t&. 187 Well, 'tis no matter: honour pricks me on. Yea, but...What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...PRINCE HENRY. Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF. 'Tis not due yet; I would be loth rds; and I do know A many fools, that stand in better place, (tarnish t like him, that die grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is... | |
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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. What... 
