Monologue

Falstaff Monologue from Henry IV, Part 1

From Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 1:26 min

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No, that’s certain, I am not a double man. But if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy! (Throwing the body down.) If your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. (PRINCE: Why, Percy I kill’d myself, and saw thee dead.) Didst thou? 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. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I’ll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh. If the man were alive, and would deny it, zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.

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30s · anger · honor · identity · power · revenge

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