 | Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 pages
...scale in literature, but, as we might expect, Shakespeare has one: Hal's rejection of Falstaff: I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But,... | |
 | Orson Welles - 1988 - 356 pages
...ruffian" Falstaff. The new king's whip-lash lines stress Falstaff's age and glance at his death: 1 know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! 1 have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But being... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - 1994 - 244 pages
...Falstaff is behaving in an unseemly way or that he merits the chilling rebuke that follows: KING I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But being... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...of happy time; and they wake to an unpleasant actuality. Similarly Henry V spurns Falstaff: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, But being... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...you speak? FALSTAKF. My king! my Jove! 1 speak to thee, my heart! K!NC, HKXKY THE FIFTH. I know thec jester! I have long drcani'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swcll'd, so old, and so profane; But,... | |
 | Arthur Graham - 1997 - 244 pages
...hear the "cajoling" theme from the Introduction. 5:15 The King rejects him cruelly, saying,"! know thee not, old man; fall to thy prayers. / How ill white hairs become a fool and jester." The procession moves on. 6:32 At the inn, where Sir John lies, near his death. Falstaff s... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - 1999 - 116 pages
...Folly now that the death of his father has made him rise to the responsibilities of maturity: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dreamed of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane; But,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1999 - 240 pages
...Henry V chides his old friend, Falstaff, for being so irresponsible at so advanced an age: "I know thee not, old man; fall to thy prayers! How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!" (Henry IV, Part 2, 5.5.51). That greatest Prince's presence might behold. But all the floor... | |
 | Orson Welles - 2001 - 342 pages
...Know you what 'tis you speak? FALSTAFF My king! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! HENRY V I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dreamed of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, But,... | |
 | Howard Riell - 2002 - 561 pages
...The Oloitld Penceioe n u, there you are. What are you waiting for? Shkeeah is in 10 minutes." I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! "Are you listening to me? Where's your mind lately? Turn around and look at me. Your mother... | |
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I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester! 
