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King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil![85:1]
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,
I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
A deal of skimble-skamble stuff.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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Exceedingly well read.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
A good mouth-filling oath.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.
A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Rob me the exchequer.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
That daffed the world aside,
And bid it pass.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bathed;
Glittering in golden coats, like images;
As full of spirit as the month of May,
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd,
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,
And vaulted with such ease into his seat
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.
A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the [87]villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. 2.
To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast[87:1]
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. 2.
I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.
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 is in 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. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
This earth that bears thee dead
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
But not remember'd in thy epitaph!
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
I could have better spared a better man.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
The better part of valour is discretion.[87:2]
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
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Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly.
King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departing friend.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
A rascally yea-forsooth knave.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
We that are in the vaward of our youth.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
Who lined himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection.[88:1]
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.
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An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.
Past and to come seems best; things present worst.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.
A poor lone woman.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
I 'll tickle your catastrophe.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
I do now remember the poor creature, small beer.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Let the end try the man.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Aggravate your choler.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4.
O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
With all appliances and means to boot.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Most forcible Feeble.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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We have heard the chimes at midnight.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
A man can die but once.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
We are ready to try our fortunes
To the last man.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 3.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.[90:1]
Commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.[90:1]
A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 1.
His cares are now all ended.
King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.
Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.[90:2]
King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.
A foutre for the world and worldlings base!
I speak of Africa and
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