![]() ![]() We’ve seen Prince Hal perform his tasks as warrior prince against the triple-threat of Wales, Scotland, and rebellious English earls, while Falstaff proves himself a leech, a thief, a coward, and a liar by act 2, scene 4, when the Gadshill scheme is revealed and Hal pays off Falstaff’s tavern bills. banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.” Hal, as king, answers simply, “I do, I will” (2.4.469–76). old white-bearded Satan” (2.4.457–58), “Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins but for sweet Jack Falstaff. During the deposition of the wayward prince by his father the king, Falstaff, portraying Prince Hal, responds after charges of being “a villainous, abominable misleader of youth. ![]() We’ve known since act 1, scene 2 of Henry IV Part One that Hal will one day break off his association with Falstaff to reveal his stunning goodness and competence as sunshine long hidden behind “foul and ugly mists / Of vapors that did seem to strangle him” (1.2.196–97). The subsequent play, Henry V, does kill Falstaff with a sweat (brought on, of course, by a broken heart), and he never appears onstage-suggesting, perhaps, that someone’s hard opinions have indeed killed him off. shall die of a sweat, unless already be killed with your hard opinions” (Epilogue 24–29, emphasis added all line references from Bevington’s Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th ed. Start with Henry IV Part Two’s Epilogue: “If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it. ![]()
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