{"id":9048,"date":"2025-02-08T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9048"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:22:06","slug":"henry-iv-part-ii-act-ii-scene-iii-first-folio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9048","title":{"rendered":"Henry IV, Part ii; Act II, Scene ii First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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

2323  I would you had but the wit: 'twere better
2324  then your Dukedome. Good faith, this same young so-
2325  ber-blooded Boy doth not loue me, nor a man cannot
2326  make him laugh: but that's no maruaile, hee drinkes no
2327  Wine. There's neuer any of these demure Boyes come
2328  to any proofe: for thinne Drinke doth so ouer-coole
2329  their blood, and making many Fish-Meales, that they
2330  fall into a kinde of Male Greene-sicknesse: and then,
2331  when they marry, they get Wenches. They are generally
2332  Fooles, and Cowards; which some of vs should be too,
2333 but for inflamation. A good Sherris-Sack hath a two-
2334  fold operation in it: it ascends me into the Braine, dryes
2335  me there all the foolish, and dull, and cruddie Vapours,
2336  which enuiron it: makes it apprehensiue, quicke, forge-
2337  tiue, full of nimble, fierie, and delectable shapes; which
2338  deliuer'd o're to the Voyce, the Tongue, which is the
2339  Birth, becomes excellent Wit. The second propertie of
2340  your excellent Sherris, is, the warming of the Blood:
2341  which before (cold, and setled) left the Liuer white, and
2342  pale; which is the Badge of Pusillanimitie, and Cowar-
2343  dize: but the Sherris warmes it, and makes it course
2344  from the inwards, to the parts extremes: it illuminateth
2345  the Face, which (as a Beacon) giues warning to all the
2346  rest of this little Kingdome (Man) to Arme: and then
2347  the Vitall Commoners, and in-land pettie Spirits, muster
2348  me all to their Captaine, the Heart; who great, and pufft
2349  vp with his Retinue, doth any Deed of Courage: and this
2350  Valour comes of Sherris. So, that skill in the Weapon
2351  is nothing, without Sack (for that sets it a-worke:) and
2352  Learning, a meere Hoord of Gold, kept by a Deuill, till
2353  Sack commences it, and sets it in act, and vse. Hereof
2354  comes it, that Prince Harry is valiant: for the cold blood
2356  hee did naturally inherite of his Father, hee hath, like
2357  leane, stirrill, and bare Land, manured, husbanded, and
2358  tyll'd, with excellent endeauour of drinking good, and
2359  good store of fertile Sherris, that hee is become very hot,
2360  and valiant. If I had a thousand Sonnes, the first Principle
2361  I would teach them, should be to forsweare thinne Pota-
2362  tions, and to addict themselues to Sack. <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This speech is used in our interview with John Ahlin. Click here\u00a0to open up Modern version. 2323 I would you had but the wit: ’twere better2324 then your Dukedome. Good faith, this same young so-2325 ber-blooded Boy doth not loue me, nor a man cannot2326 make him laugh: but that’s no maruaile, hee drinkes no2327<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9048","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2lW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9048\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}