 | Arthur Asa Berger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 146 pages
...'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?...touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. Falstaff is a trickster figure, who continually escapes, one way or another, from embarrassments, from... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...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?...the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was no a coward on instinct. 200 Orson Welles on Shakespeare I shall think the better of myself, and thee,... | |
 | Chris Holcomb - Courtesy books - 2001 - 248 pages
...exposes Falstaffs story as a lie, Falstaff quickly recovers and explains that he ran away on instinct: "Should I turn upon the true Prince? Why, thou knowest...the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life—I for a valiant... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...thematic continuities among the plays of the Henriad. Falstaff introduces it offhandedly: Why, hear you, my masters. Was it for me to kill the heir- apparent?...life — I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.2 As with so much of Falstaffs discourse, the lines are overdetermined. In the context of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 186 pages
...show of the speaker's character? E2 Why, hear you my masters, was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest...the true prince; instinct is a great matter: I was now a coward on instinct: I shall think the better of myself, and thee, during my life — I for a... | |
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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. I shall think the better of myself, and thee,... 
