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" Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; 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.... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 98
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Argonaut, Volume 5

Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...ie oihis observation and experience —to demonstrate that honour is a delusion. " Can honour set-to a leg ? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief...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. It...
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Spanish Picaresque Fiction: A New Literary History

Peter N. Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 364 pages
...limb are challenged by such powerful imaginative creations as Panurge and Falstaff. "Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday" (Henry IV, Part I,...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...Another view of the feudal world is to be gained from Falstaff's remarks on honor, prior to the battle: Well, 'tis no matter, honour pricks me on. Yea, but...that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Tis insensible,...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...PRINCE HENRY. Why, thou owest God a death. [Exit. SIR JOHN FALSTAFP. Ti* not due yet; I would be loth d 3 3@ 3 that word honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it?...
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Self-conscious Art: A Tribute to John W. Kronik

Susan L. Fischer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 194 pages
...external honor, whose fatuous essence is well spoofed by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1: Can honour set a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...is in that word? Honour. What is that honour? Air. (1.5.130-34) There is a sense in which Falstaff 's airy definition of honor is borne out literally...
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The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, William Barclay Allen, Hadley Arkes - Philosophy - 1997 - 196 pages
...what need I be so forward with him that calls not on me." Still, he offers, " 'tis no matter, honor pricks me on": Yea, but how if honour prick me off...that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a- Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Does he hear it? No. Tis insensible,...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...recruiting methods, and we may laugh at the pragmatism of his soliloquy on honour: 'Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of...in that word "honour"? What is that "honour"? Air' (5.1.131-5). We can hardly fail to enjoy his genius for self-preservation as he plays dead in order...
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A Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and ...

Jorge Arditi - History - 1998 - 334 pages
...as we learn later, "Why, thou owest God a death." Left alone, Falstaff reflects on that last remark. 'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before...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. Tis insensible,...
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Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 340 pages
...Well, 'tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? 130 How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm?...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. 'Tis insensible,...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...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...surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. 3790 Henry IV, Part 2 1 am as poor as lob, my lord, but not so patient. 3791...
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