HAMLET AND OPHELIA. Photogravure from a painting by H. Merle. Hamlet:-"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery; go, farewell." Falstaff-No, that's certain: I am not a double man; but if I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy [throwing down the body]: if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. Prince Henry-Why, Percy I killed myself, and saw thee dead. Falstaff - Didst thou?-Lord, lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so was he; but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be believed, so; if not, let them that should reward valor bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the thigh: if the man were alive, and would deny it-'zounds! I would make him eat a piece of my sword. Prince John This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard. This is the strangest fellow, brother John.- [A retreat is sounded.] The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours. [Exeunt Prince Henry and Prince John. Falstaff-I'll follow as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him: if I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. [Exit, dragging out Percy's body. HENRY'S WOOING OF KATHARINE From King Henry V. Scene: An Apartment in the French King's Palace. Κ ING HENRY-Fair Katharine, and most fair! And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? Katharine - Your Majesty shall mock at me: I cannot speak your England. |