 Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me ? Well, '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...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 98by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 136 pages
...inn-keeper of Daintry. But that's all one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge. FALSTAFF ON HONOUR. What need I be so forward with him that calls not...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 2 No. Doth he... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...activity has not been misemployed, and whose course terminates not in confessions of disappointments ? 5. Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take...surgery then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word honour ? Air. A trim reckoning 1 Who hath it ? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick 1 30 me off when I come on, how then? Can honour set to...that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim 135 reckoning! Who hath it? He that died aWednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...ie oihis observation and experience —to demonstrate that honour is a delusion. " Can honour set-to a leg ? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief...that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. It... | |
 | Peter N. Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 364 pages
...limb are challenged by such powerful imaginative creations as Panurge and Falstaff. "Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday" (Henry IV, Part I,... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...Another view of the feudal world is to be gained from Falstaff's remarks on honor, prior to the battle: Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks me on. Yea, but...that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Tis insensible,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...bedtime, Hal, and all well. PRINCE HENRY. Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit. SIR JOHN FALSTAFP. Ti* r that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?... | |
 | Susan L. Fischer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 194 pages
...external honor, whose fatuous essence is well spoofed by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1: Can honour set a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...is in that word? Honour. What is that honour? Air. (1.5.130-34) There is a sense in which Falstaff 's airy definition of honor is borne out literally... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli, William Barclay Allen, Hadley Arkes - Philosophy - 1997 - 196 pages
...what need I be so forward with him that calls not on me." Still, he offers, " 'tis no matter, honor pricks me on": Yea, but how if honour prick me off...that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Does he hear it? No. Tis insensible,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...recruiting methods, and we may laugh at the pragmatism of his soliloquy on honour: 'Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...in that word "honour"? What is that "honour"? Air' (5.1.131-5). We can hardly fail to enjoy his genius for self-preservation as he plays dead in order... | |
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