...appeals to him: My King! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! But the response is one of total rejection: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How...so profane; But being awak'd I do despise my dream. (...) Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I...

...Know you what 'tis you speak? FALSTAFF My King! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING HENRY V 50 I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How...jester. I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, But being awaked I do despise my dream. Make less thy body...

...that Falstaff is behaving in an unseemly way or that he merits the chilling rebuke that follows: KING I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and...

...period of happy time; and they wake to an unpleasant actuality. Similarly Henry V spurns Falstaff: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and...

...this other obscene paternal figure: "How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! /I have longdream'd of such a kind of man, / So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane, / But, being awak'd, 1 do despise my dream"(5.5.52-55). 53. Apropos of this material weight of van Gogh paintings, one can...

...cajole. We hear the "cajoling" theme from the Introduction. 5:15 The King rejects him cruelly, saying,"! know thee not, old man; fall to thy prayers. / How ill white hairs become a fool and jester." The procession moves on. 6:32 At the inn, where Sir John lies, near his...

...Know you what 'tis you speak ? FALSTAFF My king, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart ! 45 KING HENRY I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How...jester ! I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane ; But being awaked, I do despise my dream. 50 Make less thy...

...when, after the death of his father, he meets Falstaff, who greets him royally. Hal, now King, replies: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! He goes on to spell out his betrayal: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so...

...king! My Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!" Generations of critics have been chilled by Henry's reply: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! . . . Presume not that I am the thing I was. (2 Henry IV, Vv46) And so follows, in Henry V, the pathos...

...not, old man, fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! I have long dreamed of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But, being awaken'd, I do despise my dream. Hal has transformed from a juvenile delinquent to the ideal king,...