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Shallow Monologue from Henry IV, Part 2

From Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:21 min

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By yea and no, sir, I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he not? (SILENCE: Indeed, sir, to my cost.) He must, then, to the Inns o’ Court shortly. I was once of Clement’s Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet. (SILENCE: You were called “lusty Shallow” then, cousin.) By the mass, I was called anything, and I would have done anything indeed too, and roundly too. There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele, a Cotswold man. You had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the Inns o’ Court again. And I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were and had the best of them all at commandment. Then was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.

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40s · joy · identity · friendship · honor · nostalgia

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