 | E. S. Shaffer - 1986 - 376 pages
...'old' manner (for Falstaff's age is as strongly emphasized as his fatness and sensuality): Falstaff: If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn'd; if to be fat to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord: banish... | |
 | Georges Minois - 1989 - 376 pages
...Lucrece asks.105 Indeed, if the old do possess a common attribute, it does not appear to be wisdom. 'If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned',106 declares Falstaff, 'the very model of wellbeing. As for Adam, his merit derives from his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...— saving your reverence — a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God K damn'd: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish... | |
 | John Green, Paul Negri - 2000 - 68 pages
...he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that l know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 166 pages
...he is (saving your reverence) a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an 457 old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to be 458 hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...he is, saving your reverence, a whore-master that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin,...many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...— saving your reverence — a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God fort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: damn'd: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish... | |
 | Joseph McBride - 2006 - 364 pages
...splendid Shakespearean self-defense he offered as Falstaff: If sack and sugar be a fault, then God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned. And if to be fat is to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord: banish... | |
 | Charles Whitney - 2006 - 24 pages
...divergence. In his defense of himself during the play extempore in i Henry IV, plump Jack declares that "If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned" (2.5.429—30). In 1604 appeared anonymously Middleton's slight volume of dialogue and tales, The Meeting... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 618 pages
...white hairs do witness it; but that he is (saving your reverence) a vicemaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, Heaven help the wicked...merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is doomed ; if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish... | |
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If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damn'd : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. 
