...will serve to be prologue to an egg and butter. P. Hen. Well, how then ? Come, roundly, roundly Fal; Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not...of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty;3 let us be — Diana's 1 That is, more is to be said than anger will suffer me to say. a Falstaff,...

..."If you wouldn't mind taking your hands out of your pockets, sir," Fox suggested. The Doctor said: "Let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beauty," and obligingly withdrew his hands from his trousers pockets. Unfortunately he pulled the linings out...

...of tides appears likewise from the First Part of Henry the Fourth , Act I. scene 2, "being govern'd as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon." Shakespeare seems to have been thinking of the 19th ode of Anacreon ['H yf| u,e\aiva mvei,] of which...

...will be the activities and duties of a squire or knight such as Falstaff when Hal is king: Falstaff when thou art king, let not us that are squires of...body be called thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana'sforesters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and let men say we be men of good government,...

...Well, how then? Come, roundly, roundly. 23 FALSTAFF Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, 24 let not us that are squires of the night's body be called 25 thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the...

...Falstaff responds to Hal with a preemptive and poetic defense of yet another one of his vices, thievery: Marry then sweet wag, when thou art king let not us...are squires of the night's body be called thieves ol the day's beauty: let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon; and...

...favour or patronage, patronized me. For this sense of 'countenance' compare i Henry IV: I, ii, 33, 'Being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.'And Hamlet, IV, ii, 16: 'Ros. Take you me for a sponge, my lord? Ham. Ay, sir, that soaks up...

...passions, and she was compelled to receive the unwelcome assiduities of her detested suitor. CHAPTER VI Let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's booty; let us be Diana's for esters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. HENRY IV. PART I....

...of the moon is not very natural. — STEEVENS: The same thought has already occurred in 1 Hen. IV: 'being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon.' [I, ii, 32. The First Quarto of i Hen. IV. is dated 1598, one year later than the present play. In...

...Falstaff points out that he is a man who, unlike ordinary men, is guided not by Phoebus, the sun, but by the moon: Marry then sweet wag, when thou art king...mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. KING HENRY IV, PART 1 (1.2, 23-29) In short, Falstaff is a true lunatic (from the Latin for "moonstruck"),...