...you what 'tis you speak? FALSTAFF. My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING HENRY THE FIFTH. ii. 16-60 Pray to the gods to intermit the plague...needs must light on this ingratitude. FLAVIUS. Go, so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;...

...still my sense in Lethe sleep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! Sebastian — TN IV.i 27 I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How...such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane; But, being awak'd, I do despise my dream. King Henry V— 2 Henry IV Vv 0 God, I could...

...So SMI The Oloitld Penceioe n u, there you are. What are you waiting for? Shkeeah is in 10 minutes." I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! "Are you listening to me? Where's your mind lately? Turn around and look at me. Your mother tells me...

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...at last claims Hal and betrays Falstaff. At his coronation, Henry V banishes Falstaff and laughter. "I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers, / How ill white hairs become a fool and wit!" (He1ny Wv). High mimetic laughter therefore assumes a pose of superiority. We may share in the...

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...thee with my honours Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! King Henry IV, Part II, ACT V, SCENE V KING. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! King Henry V, ACT III, SCENE III KING. Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter, Go you and enter Harfleur;...

...crises provoked by Falstaff culminate in a speech that determinedly assigns to him clear-cut labels: "1 know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers. / How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!" (Vv47-48; emphasis added). Hal substitutes knowing Falstaff in the sense of classifying him for knowing...