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Falstaff Monologue from Henry IV, Part 1

From Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

male · sarcastic · 1:13 min

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Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman hath no lean wardrobe. ’Sblood, I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear. (PRINCE: Or an old lion, or a lover’s lute.) Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe. (PRINCE: What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of Moor-ditch?) Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art indeed the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young prince. But, Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. An old lord of the Council rated me the other day in the street about you, sir, but I marked him not, and yet he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not, and yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.

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40s · disgust · identity · power · vanity · friendship

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