Bar. | Bard | Bard: | Bardolfe | Bar | Bard. [Bardolph]
Words
318
Characters
1640
Typicality
0.48 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A11974
BritDrama no.
1083
Cluster
Cluster 23 — Gulls, fops & laughing-stocks
Important excerpts
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Full speech
I have no tongue sir. Yea sir, the rascal's drunk, you have hurt him sir i'th shoulder. You must away to court sir presently, A dozen captains stay at door for you. Sir, pardon, a soldier is better accommodate the with a wife. Pardon sir, I have herd the word, Phrase call you it? by this day I know not the phrase, but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldierlike word, and a word of exceeding good command by heaven, accommodated, that is when a man is as they say, accommodated, or when a man is being whereby, a may be thought to be accommodated, which is and excellent thing. Go to, stand aside. Hold Wart, Travers thas, thas, thas. The army is dis harged all, and gone. And I might see you there Davy! Yea sir, in a pottle pot. And isle stick by him sir. One knocks at door. Come, get you down stairs. My Captain, sir, commends him to you, my Cap tain sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, and a most gallant Leader. I beseech you, which is justice Shallow? Well said, th'art a good fellow. Sir, a word with you, I have three pound to free Moul die and Bulcalfe. God save your grace. Away you horson upright rabble, away. And you do not make him hanged among you, the Gall lowes shall have wrong. Well my Lord, he herd of your graces coming to town, theres a letter for you. In bodily health sir. Yea my Lord. At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheape. Pray thee go down good Ancient. Be gone good Ancient, this will grow to a brawl anon. Mistress Tere-sheet. Bid mistress Tere-sheet come to my master. Go to, stand aside. I am glad to see your worship. Oh joyful day! I would not take a Knight for my for tune.
Plot summary
Plot — 2 Henry the Fourth
After the battle of Shrewsbury, there are contradictory rumours abroad as to the outcome: some say that the King and his son have vanquished Lord Hotspur of Lancaster, whereas in fact they won. Now Lord John of Lancaster is travelling north with a power, including Sir John Falstaff, to crush the regrouping remnants of the Percy rebellion. Mistress Quickly tries to have Falstaff arrested for debt, while threatens to prevent him setting out for London, but he talks his way out of it. Back from a military expedition in Wales, Prince Henry and Poins disguise themselves as drawers and eavesdrop on Falstaff’s conversation: he says uncomplimentary things about them, but Falstaff excuses himself inventively when confronted. Northumberland’s family persuade him to flee to Scotland rather than join the other northern rebels. Falstaff musters troops in Gloucestershire, but the best men bribe their way out, leaving him with the least suitable soldiers. Prince John sees the rebels and agrees to redress their grievances if they disband their army; but when they do so, he has them arrested for treason. Falstaff arrives in the north late, but meets the rebel Sir John Colville, who promptly surrenders without a fight, having heard Falstaff’s reputation. Prince John returns to court, but Falstaff goes via Gloucestershire to visit Justice Shallow. The sickly King prepares for death, and worries about the kingdom’s future in the hands of his eldest son. News arrives of the defeat of all the rebels. Prince Henry finds his father asleep with the crown beside him, and, thinking him dead, tries it on. The King wakes to find his crown gone. Brought back, the Prince excuses himself, and the King gives deathbed advice: he should pursue an aggressive foreign policy to distract from internal dissent. He dies in the Jerusalem chamber, fulfilling a prophecy that he will die in Jerusalem. Henry V is not the King everyone expected the Prince to be. He confirms in office the Lord Chief Justice, who had imprisoned him for his misdemeanours. Pistol brings to Gloucestershire news of his accession, and Falstaff anticipates power for himself and his associates. He is disappointed: when he accosts the King at his coronation, Henry refuses to acknowledge him, and banishes him — though with a pension to ensure that poverty does not lead him back into crime. Falstaff is convinced that this is only a public show of rejection, which will later be countermanded in private; but in fact he and his crew…