Shakspeare's King Henry IV Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878* Excerpt: ...taken, halter.4 Re-enter Falstaff. Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now, my sweet creature of bombast? 5 How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thine own knee? Fal. My own knee? when I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder. There's villainous news abroad: here was Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the north, Percy; and he of Wales, that gave the thing stolen. Compare what Costard says in Love's Labour Lost, i. 1: 'The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner:--I was seen with her in the manor house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following her into the park.' 1 Fire. An allusion to Bardolph's fiery complexion. 2 These meteors. Referring still to his complexion. Hot livers. 'I had rather heat my liver with drinking;' Antony and Cleopatra,i. 2. 'And let my liver rather heat with wine; Mirchant of Venice, i. 1. 4 Halter. This has a quibbling reference to choler as suggesting collar. 'Bombast. Stuffing cotton. Amaimon1 the bastinado, and made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook 2--what, a plague, call you him? Poins. O--Glendower. Fal. Owen, Owen; the same;--and his son-in-law, Mortimer; and old Northumberland; and that sprightly Scot of Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill perpendicular. P. Hen. He that rides at high speed, and with his pistol kills a sparrow flying. Fal. You have hit it. P. Hen. So did he never the sparrow. Fal. Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run. P. Hen. Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so for running! Fal....