- Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. (Induction) Rumor speaks about how rumor spreads among the masses.
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"The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." (Act 1, scene 2)
Falstaff in praise of himself. -
"I am poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient." (Act 1, scene 2)
Falstaff to the Lord Chief Justice. -
CHIEF JUSTICE: God send the prince a better companion! FALSTAFF: God send the companion a better prince! I cannot rid my hands of him. (Act 1, scene 2 )
Falstaff gets the better of the Lord Chief Justice. -
"Away, you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe." (Act 2, scene 1)
Falstaff's page speaks to Hostess Quickly. -
"He hath eaten me out of house and home." (Act 2, scene 1)
Hostess Quickly complains to the Chief Justice about Falstaff. -
"We have heard the chimes at midnight." (Act 3, scene 2)
Falstaff alludes to the boisterous times he and Shallow had in their youth. -
"I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death." (Act 3, scene 2)
Feeble explains that he has no objection to being recruited as a soldier. -
"A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine." (Act 4, scene 3)
Falstaff's opinion of Prince John of Lancaster. - "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." (Act 5, scene 5 )
The new King rejects Falstaff.
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