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| Character | Falstaff | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Angry, Scolding, Complaining | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Description | Falstaff scolds Pistol | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 2 | |
Summary
In the first scene of the play we are introduced to Justice Shallow, Master Slender and Sir Hugh Evans. First they talk about Sir John Falstaff, a scoundrel and a thief, who has wronged them, then about Slender's hopes to marry Anne Page.
They confront Falstaff at Master Page's house and he admits his wrongdoings. Falstaff later tells his men that he plans to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford so that he can have access to their husband's money. He asks his men, Nim and Pistol, to deliver his love letters to Mistress Ford and Mistress Page but they refuse since they consider themselves honest men. Falstaff finds somebody else to deliver the letters.
In this monologue Falstaff tells his man Pistol that he won't lend him any more money. He even refused to deliver his letters. The reason Pistol doesn't have any money, Falstaff argues, is that he insists in being honest.
They confront Falstaff at Master Page's house and he admits his wrongdoings. Falstaff later tells his men that he plans to seduce Mistress Page and Mistress Ford so that he can have access to their husband's money. He asks his men, Nim and Pistol, to deliver his love letters to Mistress Ford and Mistress Page but they refuse since they consider themselves honest men. Falstaff finds somebody else to deliver the letters.
In this monologue Falstaff tells his man Pistol that he won't lend him any more money. He even refused to deliver his letters. The reason Pistol doesn't have any money, Falstaff argues, is that he insists in being honest.
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| FALSTAFF Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon mine honour thou hadst it not. [PISTOL Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?] FALSTAFF Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go. You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour! You will not do it, you! |
