Character · Henry IV, Part 1 · William Shakespeare

FALSTAFF

1 monologue indexed — plays cunning.

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FALSTAFF

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. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No.

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What FALSTAFF wants

To reason his way to survival without admitting he's a coward.Battle is imminent. Prince Hal has just told him he owes God a death. Left alone, Falstaff does the maths on what dying would actually buy him.

FALSTAFF

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