Henry ​IV: Part I / Henry IV: Part II (Henry IV 1-2.) 1 csillagozás

Prince Henry
[…] this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh, –
Falstaff
'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! – you tailor's yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing tuck, –
Prince Henry
Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons, hear me speak but this.

Part One, Act II, Scene IV.

Prince Henry
I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

Part One, Act I, Scene II.