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"He shall be welcome too. Where is his son, The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales, And his comrades, that daffed the world aside And bid it pass?"
Hotspur is using an arrogant tone to mock the King and his son. Unlike the audience, he does not know of the transformation of Prince Hal. This gives him a sence of false confidence against the King's army.
"This absence of your father's draws a curtain That shows the ignorant a kind of fear Before not dreamt of."
Once again Hotspur's arrogance comes into play. Even though the rebels have lost a large part of their plan (Northumberland) Hotspur still believes that they will be able to win. The other rebels are concerned and do not want to rush into battle with a spontaneous plan that Hotspur suddenly comes up with, but they want to wait for his father to return before they continue.
"A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off! And yet, in faith, it is not. His present want Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? To set so rich a main"
Like the quote above, Hotspur wants to continue with their efforts even though his father is unable to be there with his troops to help the rebels' cause. Hotspur believes that they are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
"All furnished, all in arms, All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed, Glittering in golden coats like images, As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship."
This is a description of Hal at war that gives him an image of power unlike the image that Hotspur and the others view him as.
"Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
As always with Falstaff, there is a metaphor to food in his speech. In this particular phrase, he is stating that he will be a vigilant or aggressive in war as a cat is when fighting over cream.
"I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads,"
In this speech, Falstaff admits to bribing soldiers so that they would pay to not fight. Also, he explains how this has left him with no good soldier and a crew of low-life, untrained soldiers instead.
"I think to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose fellows are these that come after?"
In this pun from Prince Hal to Falstaff, Hal calls Falstaf fat, but not only in a literal sence. He tells Falstaff that he has become fat with all of the money that he has taken from bribes and other things of the sort. So he is more or less calling Falstaff fat in every way.
"If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet. I have misused the King's press damnably."
Here Falstaff admits to his bribery and starts to complain about his sub-standard soldiers. He says that he misused the King's permission to better his own wealth, but in the end it ruined him because now he has bad soldiers.
"Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men."
This quote states the common truth that death is the great equalizer and it says that war exemplifies this fact. Falstaff says that his origional good soldiers would not have been any different because his soldiers are to be the people that will just fill in the holes and pits in the battlefield anyway. He is saying that war makes us realize just how martal we are and how dispensable one person is to the world.
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Scene 1
"He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,
The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,
And his comrades, that daffed the world aside
And bid it pass?"
Hotspur is using an arrogant tone to mock the King and his son. Unlike the audience, he does not know of the transformation of Prince Hal. This gives him a sence of false confidence against the King's army.
"This absence of your father's draws a curtain
That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
Before not dreamt of."
Once again Hotspur's arrogance comes into play. Even though the rebels have lost a large part of their plan (Northumberland) Hotspur still believes that they will be able to win. The other rebels are concerned and do not want to rush into battle with a spontaneous plan that Hotspur suddenly comes up with, but they want to wait for his father to return before they continue.
"A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off!
And yet, in faith, it is not. His present want
Seems more than we shall find it. Were it good
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? To set so rich a main"
Like the quote above, Hotspur wants to continue with their efforts even though his father is unable to be there with his troops to help the rebels' cause. Hotspur believes that they are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
"All furnished, all in arms,
All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bathed,
Glittering in golden coats like images,
As full of spirit as the month of May,
And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer,
Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury
And vaulted with such ease into his seat
As if an angel dropped down from the clouds,
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
And witch the world with noble horsemanship."
This is a description of Hal at war that gives him an image of power unlike the image that Hotspur and the others view him as.
Scene 2
"Tut, never fear me. I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
As always with Falstaff, there is a metaphor to food in his speech. In this particular phrase, he is stating that he will be a vigilant or aggressive in war as a cat is when fighting over cream.
"I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter,
with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads,"
In this speech, Falstaff admits to bribing soldiers so that they would pay to not fight. Also, he explains how this has left him with no good soldier and a crew of low-life, untrained soldiers instead.
"I think to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath already made
thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose fellows are these that
come after?"
In this pun from Prince Hal to Falstaff, Hal calls Falstaf fat, but not only in a literal sence. He tells Falstaff that he has become fat with all of the money that he has taken from bribes and other things of the sort. So he is more or less calling Falstaff fat in every way.
"If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet. I
have misused the King's press damnably."
Here Falstaff admits to his bribery and starts to complain about his sub-standard soldiers. He says that he misused the King's permission to better his own wealth, but in the end it ruined him because now he has bad soldiers.
"Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for
powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better. Tush, man,
mortal men, mortal men."
This quote states the common truth that death is the great equalizer and it says that war exemplifies this fact. Falstaff says that his origional good soldiers would not have been any different because his soldiers are to be the people that will just fill in the holes and pits in the battlefield anyway. He is saying that war makes us realize just how martal we are and how dispensable one person is to the world.
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