{"id":9046,"date":"2025-02-08T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9046"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:22:56","slug":"henry-iv-part-ii-act-ii-scene-iii-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9046","title":{"rendered":"Henry IV, Part ii: Act IV, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Henry IV, Part ii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Act IV, Scene ii \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Falstaff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This speech is used in our interview with John Ahlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here\u00a0to open up First Folio version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

89  I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than
90  your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-
91  blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make
92  him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine.\u00a0
93  There's never none of these demure boys come to any
94  proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
95  that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness;\u00a0
96  they are generally fools and cowards;\u00a0
97  which some of us should be too, but for
98  inflammation. A good sherris sack hath a two-fold
99  operation in it. It ascends me into the brain;
100  dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy
101  vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive,
102  quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and
103  delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the
104  voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes
105  excellent wit. The second property of your
106  excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood;
107  which, before cold and settled, left the liver
108  white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity
109  and cowardice; but the sherris warms it and makes
110  it course from the inwards to the parts extreme:
111  it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives
112  warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,
113  man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and
114  inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain,
115  the heart, who, great and puffed up with this
116  retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour
117  comes of sherris. Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for
118  the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his
119  father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land,
120  manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent
121  endeavour of drinking good fertile sherris,\u00a0that he is become very hot and valiant. If
122  I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I
123  would teach them should be, to forswear thin
124  potations and to addict themselves to sack.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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