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" Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you he was a madde round Knave and a merrie one too ? and if you chaunce to talke of fatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell you, he was his great grandfather, and not much unlike him in paunch, if... "
On the Character of Sir John Falstaff: As Originaly Exhibited by Shakespeare ... - Page 25
by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 55 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...represented on the stage as a very fat man (certainly not in the play printed with that title in 1600:) — " Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you be was a madde round knave and a merrie one too ? and if you chaunce to talke offatte Sir John Oldcastle,...
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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...represented on the stage as a very fat man (certainly not in the play printed with that title in 1600:) — " Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you he was a madde round knave and a merrie one too i and if you chaunce to talke ofjatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell you,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...represented on the stage as a very fat man (certainly not in the play printed with that title in 1600:) —" Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you he was a madde round knave and a merrie one too? and if yon chaunce to talke offatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell you,...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ...

Percy Society - 1841 - 438 pages
...dishes and Platters ; I will be with you againe in a trice ere you looke for me. SIG. SHUTTLEOOCKE. Now Signiors how like you mine Host ? did I not tell you he was » madde round knaue, and a merrie one too : and if you chaunce to talke of fatte Sir John Old-castle,...
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Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1881 - 324 pages
...very fat man, which is certainly not the case in the play printed under that title in 1600 : — " Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you he was a madde round Knave and a merrie one too ? and if you chaunce to talke of fatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell...
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The Life of Shakespeare: Copied from the Best Sources, Without Comment

Daniel Webster Wilder - 1893 - 238 pages
...The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie ; Or, the Walks in Powles," 1604, has this passage : — " Now, Signiors, how like you mine Host ? Did I not tell you he was a madde round knave, and a merrie one too ? And if you chaunce to talke of f atte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 10

Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin - 1893 - 534 pages
...published in 1604, called "The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or the Walks in Powles," one says, " Now, signiors, how like you mine host ? did I not tell you he was a mad round knave, and a merry one too ? and if you chance to talk of fat Sir John Oldcastle, he will...
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First Part of King Henry IV

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 278 pages
...Gallants at an £>rdinarie : or, The Walkes in Powles, which appeared in 1604, Sig. Shuttlecock says, ' Now Signiors how like you mine Host ? did I not tell you he was a madde round knave, and a merrie one too : and if you chaunce to talke of fatte Sir John Old-castle, he wil tell...
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New-Shakespeareana, Volumes 3-5

1904 - 434 pages
...Meeting of Gallants at an ordinairie at the walkes in Powles" (1604) is found this speech, "Shuttlecock. Now Signiors how like you mine Host ? Did I not tell you he was a madde round knave, and a merrie one too; and if you chance to talke of fatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell you...
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Lectures and Essays, Volume 1

Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 440 pages
...welcome, when one of the number, one Signer Shuttlecock, breaks in with, " Now, Signiors, how VOL. IK like you mine Host ? Did I not tell you he was a madde round knave, and a merrie one too : and if you chance to talk of fatte Sir John Oldcastle, he will tell you...
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